ABSTRACT

Editors’ Note: This chapter links to the themes of Access, Body, Colonial, Emotion, Nature, Race, and Women. Harper powerfully explores the experience of racial trauma and normative whiteness and the interconnection of these experiences with a body-food relationship high in processed foods and leading to bodily ill-health. She leads us on her own journey of bodily decolonization, which centered on a plant-based diet and connected her with many other African diasporic females who are doing the same – that is, women whose vegan practices are firmly rooted in a de-colonial body politics. These women became part of her Sistah Vegan project, an online community and published anthology.