musings

a biennial collection of fff ruminations 


We have a biennial publication, musings, with ISSN 2562-9832 (Print) and ISSN 2562-9840 (Digital). Every two years, we produce a 'text' centering food, feminisms, and fermentation, written from an impressive range of perspectives. We like to play with format. So far we have produced an edited collection, an abecedary (an ABC book), a manifesto, and, now, a course catalogue. 



download musings | 2025 edition | the course catalogue 

We are launching a series of courses on the theme of "Time and Becoming." You can read more about the what, how, and why of these course offerings in our latest musings, which is formatted as a course catalogue. 

download musings | 2023 edition | the manifesto 

We wrote a manifesto, experimenting with collaborative writing as feminist practice. We also played around with polyphony and bringing together three different voices. The resulting piece is both an offering and an invitation for joining the polyphonic manifesto — one that, like its ruminations on fermentation — centres process over product.

As we wrote in our preface, our hope was to prototype a version of a manifesto that could invite others to manifest their own thoughts, in their own timing. We invite responses and additional prototypes. We are listening. 

If you're interested in the making of musings 2023, you can learn more about our process soon. We are compiling a process document in our spare time. 




download musings | 2021 edition | the abecedary 

We've built an abecedary, or ABC book, with words common to food, feminism, and fermentation. The goal was to find a shared language that connects us as scholars, foodmakers, artists, scientists, and journalists engaging with/in these three domains. 
Here is the Table of Contents. Every week, we'll upload the PDF version of each entry in order:

If you're interested in the making of musings 2021, you can learn more about our process:
Write us at food.feminism.fermentation [at] gmail dot com with comments, kudos, or questions. 




download musings | 2019 edition | the edited collection 


In lieu of a preview, here is the list of contributions: 

Table of Contents for musings | 2019 edition


1 / Culturing Creativity, and a little bit of shit stirring
WhiteFeather Hunter


2 / The Fermentation Revival in Historical Context: A Feminist Perspective
Sandor Katz


3 / The Hidden Power of Coffee Fermentation 
Lucia Solis


4 / Embodying Cultures of Cultures
Michaela Kennedy


5 / Gut Feelings: A Performance
Alanna Lynch


6 / Brewing Change: Gender and Labour in Historical Texts
Alex Ketchum


7 / Not Just Yeast: How One Sourdough Starter Bubbled Out Feminism
Arianna Sikorski


8 / Find Your Sacred
Kathryn Fraser 


9 / Attuning Entanglements: Notes on a Fermentation Workshop
Salla Sariola & Matthäus Rest


10 / Tuning to the Invisible
Maya Hey 


11 / Harvest Musings
Caroline Granger


 

about the next musings  

The next iteration of musings will be published in 2025. We're open to ideas and collaborations, so write us a note if you want to conspire together. Otherwise, stay tuned for our announcements by following us on X, Facebook, and Instagram.



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