Have an event that will fit well on our calendar?
- This event has passed.
Sisters of the Yam – Work Makes Life Sweet
April 24 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Chef Tonii is preparing more delicious sweet potatoes! We’ve had Sweet Potato Stew. Then there was the salad with sweet potato, pistachios, and mint inspired by Middle Eastern cuisine. Come see what’s next!
Inspired by Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks. hooks encourages us to interrogate and transform every aspect of our lives in the pursuit of self-actualization and collective liberation.
We will focus on Chapter 3, Work Makes Life Sweet, where we consider whether our work is in alignment or conflict with our self-recovery.“Right Livelihood… embodies self-expression, commitment, mindfulness, and conscious choice.”
Sisters of the Yam echoes and responds to the healers in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters.
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter.”
Check out Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery at the Free Library of Philadelphia.