Catalogue: WATERMILLION MATRIX: Flesh Skin Seeds
WATERMILLION MATRIX: Flesh Skin Seeds delves into the watermelon stereotype, its historical role in helping formerly enslaved individuals gain capital, and themes of Black liberation. Featuring contributions from Akasha Lawrence Spence, Dom Appetite and Ruby Joy White, this publication offers academic insights, culinary watermelon recipes and evocative poems and vignettes.
Together, these elements celebrate the fruit's cultural significance, highlighting its impact on Black history, identity and community resilience. In collaboration with Black Futures Farm, one of the Portland's few Black-owned farms, Watermelon seeds are included with each copy, highlighting the importance of Black farmers and agriculture.
WATERMILLION MATRIX: Flesh Skin Seeds delves into the watermelon stereotype, its historical role in helping formerly enslaved individuals gain capital, and themes of Black liberation. Featuring contributions from Akasha Lawrence Spence, Dom Appetite and Ruby Joy White, this publication offers academic insights, culinary watermelon recipes and evocative poems and vignettes.
Together, these elements celebrate the fruit's cultural significance, highlighting its impact on Black history, identity and community resilience. In collaboration with Black Futures Farm, one of the Portland's few Black-owned farms, Watermelon seeds are included with each copy, highlighting the importance of Black farmers and agriculture.
WATERMILLION MATRIX: Flesh Skin Seeds delves into the watermelon stereotype, its historical role in helping formerly enslaved individuals gain capital, and themes of Black liberation. Featuring contributions from Akasha Lawrence Spence, Dom Appetite and Ruby Joy White, this publication offers academic insights, culinary watermelon recipes and evocative poems and vignettes.
Together, these elements celebrate the fruit's cultural significance, highlighting its impact on Black history, identity and community resilience. In collaboration with Black Futures Farm, one of the Portland's few Black-owned farms, Watermelon seeds are included with each copy, highlighting the importance of Black farmers and agriculture.