Author: TKM
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// reading & records
I’m reading on Friday 6/3 in San Francisco, and 20 Minute Loop is putting out a new LP.
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// elephants wouldn’t wonder
Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…
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// the bottom of lake powell
If you haven’t been following along at home, Greg Giles and I accidentally started an occasional conversational essay series on films with environmental and food justice themes, and Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts has been kind enough to keep publishing it. Russell seems like a good guy. I’ve never met him and have no idea…
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// a sovereign food systems reader
The Institute for Food & Development Policy turned forty this year, and to mark that milestone, researcher Tanya Kerssen and I co-edited the anthology Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building—with thirty-two selections from Food First’s library and a foreword by founder Frances Moore Lappé. You can finally order your copy here.…
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// imperfect yields
Early digital video, the aging feminine, and whether Kerouac got it right—film-obsessed writer/musician Gregory Giles and I published a second conversation in our occasional series on works with environmental and food justice themes. Our Cosmetically Imperfect Yields; or, Agnès Varda’s Loose Grip on Gleaning …
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// double fake-out
Today in Berfrois, a conversation with my partner in crime, writer/musician/film devotee Gregory Giles, on how being cavalier can give rise to meaningful activism: Luc Moullet’s Double Fake-Out; or, Tracking Food Sovereignty in the ’70s ICYMI, I did an interview with Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts earlier this year, and the journal has also published…
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// 40 years fighting hunger
Since early 2015, I’ve been co-editing Food First’s 40th anniversary retrospective anthology, Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building, with research coordinator Tanya Kerssen. Having spent several months selecting and organizing excerpts, we’re moving into the proofing and design phase. We now have a cover, which I’m excited to share: My…
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// north! & a reading
In a month we will pack everything we own into a big yellow truck and drive north. North! I think of lone shaggy-haired boys hitchhiking to Alaska. The arrow drawn on landscape designs. Lucie Brock-Broido: “bold as a compass// Needle pointing—North…// Your letters to me long since/ Lost, I’ve been loving you so long.”…
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// big ag on twitter
Today on FoodFirst.org, my close reading of Big Six agribusiness social media strategy: Big Ag’s Fight for Twitter Credibility There are common interests across corporate enterprises, so it makes sense that agribusiness, tobacco, and oil companies are linked to some of the same PR firms, lobbyist “think tanks,” and other front organizations. How can…
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// queen mob’s teahouse
Today on Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a conversation with Russell Bennetts about aggressive earnestness and, well, you be the judge. And no, those aren’t our real bodies. Also, in case you missed it, Bennetts was behind another recent project: Jeff Bezos wrote a poetry ebook, and I helped. …
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 