Suburban Foraging: Acorn Mush

 

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.

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 discuss the two essays over lunch at 12:30. Acorn mush will be available for sampling.

Suburban Foraging: Acorn Mush

Publish Date

September 24, 2015

Presenter(s)

Eben Kirksey

Link to Video

https://youtu.be/iMFXae0SSGk

Video Length

01:24:53

 

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.

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 discuss the two essays over lunch at 12:30. Acorn mush will be available for sampling.