Program Legacy Project Submission for Farm Sanctuary's inaugural "Social Justice & Our Food System" Community Learning Program

We all have issues we care about, but how often do we stop to think about how those issues are interconnected?

Take, for example, the systemic oppression of BIPOC communities and the inhumane treatment of farmed animals in our modern food system...

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Farm Sanctuary Community Learning Program

Fighting the Systemic Oppression in our Modern Food System

A reading of Clarice Lispector's short story "A hope," as translated by Katrina Dodson. 

Please check out the whole book; it's amazing!
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-Clarice-Lispector/dp/0811219631

Shelter-In-Place Day #2: A hope

Love in the Time of COVID-19: A Prose Poem

Shelter-In-Place Day #1: Love in the Time of COVID-19

A reading of Annie Dillard's creative nonfiction essay "Living Like Weasels," from Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters.

I highly recommend the whole book:
https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Stone-Talk-Expeditions-Encounters-ebook/dp/B000W968PU

Shelter-In-Place Day #3: Living Like Weasels

A reading of an excerpt from Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera as translated by Edith Grossman. 

This is one of my absolute favorite books and is probably one of the reasons I ended up studying Latin American literature: 

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Time-Cholera-Vintage-International-ebook/dp/B00NKDOZNM

Shelter-In-Place Day #4: Love in the Time of Cholera

A reading of César Vallejo's prose poem "Discovery of Life" ("Hallazgo de la Vida") as translated by Clayton Eshleman in The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition. 

My copy is absolutely overrun with post-its and bookmarks: 

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poetry-Bilingual-C%C3%A9sar-Vallejo/dp/0520261739

Shelter-In-Place Day #5: Discovery of Life

A reading of Julio Cortázar's classic short story "Axolotl" as translated by Paul Blackburn in Blow-Up and Other Stories.

This is the best collection of Cortázar's stories available in English:

www.amazon.com/Love-Time-Cholera…ook/dp/B00NKDOZNM

https://www.amazon.com/Blow-Up-Other-Stories-Julio-Cortazar-ebook/dp/B00LRIUVR6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10XE4XB2SY4AH&dchild=1&keywords=blow-up+and+other+stories&qid=1585205238&sprefix=blow-up+and+other+s%2Caps%2C249&sr=8-1

Bristin Jones