The Weight We Carry: Food, Labor, and Black Women’s Bodies as Living Archives - Stacey Abrams Newsroom https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/ Fri, 22 May 2026 05:58:12 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub The Weight We Carry: Food, Labor, and Black Women’s Bodies as Living Archives https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/the-weight-we-carryfood-labor-and-black-womens-bodies-as-living-archives_1773007092 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:20:19 -0500 https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/the-weight-we-carryfood-labor-and-black-womens-bodies-as-living-archives_1773007092 The Weight We Carry: Food, Labor, and Black Women’s Bodies as Living Archives

Black History Month invites us to remember, but remembrance is not only about names and dates. It is also about the stories our bodies hold. For Black women, food is never just food. It is history, labor, survival, creativity, resistance, and, too often, blame. Last September in Atlanta, at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) conference, I presented research on Black women, food, and labor under the theme African Americans and Labor. What became clear in that…]]>