Jocelyn Jackson, founder of JUSTUS Kitchen, emphasizes the intersection of social justice, food, and art in empowering communities. She organizes collective meals to honor significant historical moments, celebrating survival and the sacrifices of ancestors. Jackson's work reflects a commitment to liberation and community care. She shares insights from her personal journey, including transformative experiences in Mali. Recently receiving a $100,000 fellowship, she advocates for sustained support for artists beyond transactional relationships, urging the recognition and celebration of identities within their communities.
Social justice and food and art can intersect in a way that is so powerful and compelling. It really invites people to step into their power.
We are gathering our people together to not only acknowledge the horror of this real specific place, but to also reclaim it as a purposeful celebration of our survival and how our ancestors sacrificed so much to get us here.
We are empowered by their sacrifice to go to the streets and to create that call to action of continuing a legacy that is about liberation, that is about collective care.
Being in a place where your own identity is centralized, celebrated, uplifted, amplified, simply by its existence. I wish it for everyone.
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