On  October 18th, Mi’oux Stabler and Lydia Cheshewalla sat down with Casey Welsch for a conversation about food sovereignty’s role in confronting generations of colonial dispossession and revitalizing community health and cultural autonomy.

“The struggles of artists and cultural workers for fair compensation and financial stability/sustainability cannot and should not exist independent of struggles for housing, healthcare, education, and protections led by people from all walks of life.”

“The composition layers keyboard played by Mary Elizabeth Jo Dixen Pelenaise Kapi’olani Lawson, her vocals (chanting, reading, humming), sounds inside a kitchen, and the voice of Paul Stephen Benjamin singing ‘Black Is the Color.’”