Edible Activism

Edible Activism demonstrates food s ability to act as a means for individual expression, community building, and rebellion by examining the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the Back-to-the-Land and Youth movements, and the Ecology Movement. The 1960s and 1970s was a time of great social change in American history. Countercultural groups of this era, who opposed the confining structures, ideologies, rituals, and leadership of the wider straight society, provide the most pertinent examples of food as a political tool and symbol.

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Sandy is a recent graduate from Colby College in Waterville, Maine where she wrote her thesis Edible Activism: Food and the Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. She is currently living in Boston, Massachusetts working in the Cardiovascular Health Services department of Brigham and Women's Hospital where she promotes health and wellness.

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"Edible Activism" demonstrates food's ability to act as a means for individual expression, community building, and rebellion by examining the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the Back-to-the-Land and Youth movements, and the Ecology Movement. The 1960s and 1970s was a time of great social change in American history. Countercultural groups of this era, who opposed the confining structures, ideologies, rituals, and leadership of the wider "straight" society, provide the most pertinent examples of food as a political tool and symbol.