IMBISS: A Working Group - Episode 1: 大豆 Soy

The first “IMBISS: A Working Group” session will be run by one of the members of the 摊摊豆花 Tantan Douhua collective, Tian Guoxin. The session will unfold histories of migration and their entanglement with the popularisation of soy products in the West. Episode 1 will be a deep dive into the racist and sexist history of the term "soy boy". The session will take form of a short 豆花 douhua (fresh "flower tofu") workshop, followed by its tasting.

IMBISS: A Working Group

“IMBISS: a working group” is a series of study groups, workshops and performances around the kitchen table that think food as that which is simultaneously life sustenance, a cultural ecosystem and a political product. Its curriculum looks at the intersections between eating practices, culinary histories, food production and trade, and global politics.

Each of the series’ sessions will focus on a different food item or practice and open up its political history. They will be looking at how these intersect with colonial histories, global capitalist trade routes, processes of racialisation, gender politics, economic uneven development, histories of revolutionary organising, and others.

This project is being developed with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.