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• Various Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid From the cooks who have fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after ecological disasters, food has long played a crucial role in resistance, protest, and mutual aid. Nourishing Resistance centers these everyday acts of culinary solidarity. Twenty-three contributors—cooks, farmers, writers, organizers, academics, and dreamers—write on queer potlucks, rebel ancestors, disability justice, Indigenous food sovereignty, and the fight against toxic diet culture, among many other topics. They recount bowls of biryani at a Delhi protest, fricasé de conejo on a Puerto Rican farm, and pay-as-you-want dishes in a collectively run Hong Kong restaurant. They chronicle the food distribution programs that emerged in Buenos Aires and New York City in the wake of COVID-19. They look to the past, revealing how women rice workers composed the song “Bella Ciao,” and the future, speculating on postcapitalist worlds that include both high-tech collective farms and herbs gathered beside highways. Through essays, articles, poems, and stories, Nourishing Resistance argues that food is a central, intrinsic part of global struggles for autonomy and collective liberation. €17.95
• Nicole Rose The Prisoner’s Herbal Prisoners commonly experience medical neglect and a dehumanising separation from wild places. However, weeds come up through the concrete cracks, The Prisoner’s Herbal contains detailed profiles of ten plants, as well as tips and tricks for making the most out of foods, spices, and condiments available. Written by an ex-prisoner after her experiences of using medicinal plants in prison, The Prisoner’s Herbal will inspire people inside and out. This book has been put together to create a resource for prisoners who would like to learn more about plants growing in prison courtyards, while also being a generally accessible and practical guide to herbs. It will be distributed to prisoners around the world via supportive individuals and solidarity projects. It contains detailed descriptions of plants, their medicinal and edible uses, how to use them and what health challenges they can support. There is also a section on how to use items that can be bought on canteen for health uses, such as salt, pepper, chilli powder and more. €13.95
• Various Hiper-Mediacions Zine This fanzine is a conversation from the ball wich becomes even more of a ball and ends up becoming a sticky mass that sticks to your fingers. It's the conversation that shakes your hand. It's that conversation you've already had and whose end always ends at its origin. It is a conversation that goes backwards because statements become questions. It is a conversation between different people in a small space with music in the background and white neon lights. It is a conversation about meanings and desires. Spoken from those places in which a system throws us into. It's a conversation about paralysis. It is a conversation that could have happened. -Violeta Mayoral €7.00