I have no idea just what to make of this EventBrite invitation. It is either brilliant satire, or another sign that the environmental mentality is truly beyond recovery. I fear the latter possibility.
September 24, Thursday: The Multispecies Salon presents, Suburban Foraging: Acorn Mush, featuring a discussion with Kimberly Tallbear (University of Alberta), Linda Noel (Koyungkawi poet) & Henry Horn (Princeton University) and with Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine) as a virtual guest.
For acorn gathering: meet in Guyot 100 at 10:00am.
Lunch & discussion: 12:30pm-2:00pm, Guyot 100.Native plants and peoples persist in suburbs that have been altered by long histories of white settler colonialism and commercial development. The Pomo people, of northern California, have explored a shared politics of resistance with plants—responding to legacies that have displaced both people and other species. Oak trees yield acorns, which can be cooked into a bitter mush that brings Pomo memories of massacres, forced marches, and internment to mind. This event will orbit around a recipe for acorn mush, by Linda Noel and Kimberly Tallbear, as well as an essay by Tom Boellstorff “Botanical Decolonization: Rethinking Native Plants.” We will collect acorns together at 10:00, and then discuss the two essays over lunch at 12:30. Acorn mush will be available for sampling.
Well I suspect the “mush” part is accurate.
[Hat tip: Richard Samuelson.]
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