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Would decentralized irl businesses work? Is that like a co-op? Or a Winco type store where the employees all own a share of the company? (I think that’s how that works). Is that what a democratic government without an electoral college/parliament/someone who makes the final decision outside of voters looks like? Are these dumb questions? Lmao

When I lived in Nashville, I befriended this girl Ari. We met in a group for women who had just moved to the area, and out of the 4 of us who met up that first night we were the 2 who really stayed in contact. She was always so much fun, we’d go swimming, out on biweekly margarita dates, to new restaurants poppin up around town. Sometimes we’d walk together and I swear she was the most zealous workout partner I’d ever had 😂 there wasn’t a step along the way she wasn’t bouncing, smiling wide. I ended up moving around the country a few more times and so did she, and now she’s in Texas living the life she was hoping to build in Nashville when we met. It’s amazing watching people progress, and imagining their journey up to the point they met you and where it’ll go from there. And I hope Ari is having the best day ❤️‍🔥

I just finished this book, Eating While Black, Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche Williams-Forson and it was pretty fascinating. Her perspective of how food shaming contributes to people’s disconnection from their culture, and therefore a different state of dis-ease offers a lot of insight into how I’ve internalized a lot of shame and shaming tactics as a black woman myself. I’ve independently identified some of the ways social media and trad media’s food and wellness trends can lead to a life of continued health complications (I.e. fad diets, food obsessions, supplements & medications) but I haven’t ever considered much the roles race play in what food is deemed “clean & healthy” vs “dirty and bad.” As Williams-Forson explains, commonly addressed food deserts are only one cog of a large systemic wheel geared toward policing black bodies. There are many layers of economic, cultural, and social aspects to everyone’s relationship to food, & black people are not excluded from that!

Ah, thank you! I am happy to add to the population—our eventual hostile takeover will be marvelous 😉

I love our brunch services when we have creative customers who want to stack their waffles with all the fixings. Watching their mirthful reactions as their plates come towered with impossible heights of whipped cream, Nutella drizzles, and handfuls of fresh fruit reminds me why I do what I do 🤩 It really is the little things!