Feminist Food Stories
Episodes
"We're a culture that revolves around food"
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone — Isabela here with our second-last edition of this autumn’s SPOTLIGHT series. Today, we’re honoured to feature an audio interview w...
TikTok Masculinity and the Tradwife
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2024, we sat down with hosts Jackie Turner and Matthew Kessler to record an episode for one of our favourite food podcasts, Feed by Table D...
Offal Conundrums
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can we square our love of animals with our inability to stop eating their body parts? In this short audio essay, Feminist Food Journal editor Isabela ...
Listen to 'Meat: The Four Futures'
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is an audio reading of Meat: The Four Futures, first published last week by TABLE researcher Tamsin Blaxter as part of our MEAT issue. Tamsin bre...
Manning the Grill
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Through a conversation with his father, Amirio Freeman digs into the dynamics of grilling as a queer Black man. Drawing on references to literature in...
To Speak in Two Tongues
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is an audio version of the piece “To Speak in Two Tongues”, written (and narrated here) by Mwinji Nakamba Siame for our MEAT issue.Mwinji Nak...
Cooking is Resistance
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A note from the editors: It is hard to believe that it was almost two years ago that we first published this powerful conversation with the feminist a...
Whale politics
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Troy Bright, a self-taught orca researcher, shares his knowledge of orcas’ rich matriarchal societies, their unique food cultures, ...
Food, Gentrification, and the City
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, Isabela sits down with Alison Hope Alkon, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Community Studies Program i...
Sin ellas no hay maíz ni país (audio, en español)
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Esta es una versión en audio del artículo "Sin ellas no hay maíz ni país", escrito (y narrado aquí) por María Villalpando para nuestro número d...
Building Power with Black Farmer Fund
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, FFJ co-founding editor Zoë Johnson had the honour of speaking with Melanie Allen and amanda david about their work with the incredib...
ḥačatakma c̓awaak (Everything is interconnected)
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, editor Isabela sits down with Charlotte Coté, Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the...
The Sexualization of Servitude
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an interesting twist, this is an in-house interview with FFJ’s founding editors. Isabela talks to Zoë about her master's thesis research on buna...
Just Because I Bottom, Doesn't Mean I'll Make You a Sandwich
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is an audio reading of Just Because I Bottom, Doesn’t Mean I’ll Make You a Sandwich, narrated by Pericles Santis and written by Jay Gee for o...
Dying for Sardines
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paris, 1942. A group of women storm a grocery store on the Rue de Buci to seize the sardines on sale that day and distribute them to a hungry crowd. A...
There's a War on Fatness
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is there social, political, economic, and cultural war being waged on fat bodies? Scholars have argued that fat stigma is contributing to the social a...
A Treasure for My Daughter
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Passover is upon us, and what better time to reflect on a Jewish mother's love for her children? Our MILK highlight of the week is editor Isabela's au...
The Childless Mothers
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the audio version of ‘The Childless Mothers’, a piece written by Lauren Gitlin for our MILK issue and read here by the author herself. Lau...
On the "Unbearable Whiteness" of Milk
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Milk is a highly contested beverage, but not always for the reasons you might think. In this episode of Feminist Food Stories (and as part of our MILK...