VILLAGE X
eating thru archives & cultivating new worlds
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ANOTHER WORLD IS HERE.
Welcome to Village X, a community rooted in Black archives, foodways and freedom. Our work engages Black culinary traditions as technologies, using food and land as a lens to examine survival, care, liberation and cultural preservation.
In 2020 we came together to produce Village X Magazine, ten volumes of original work interrogating the norms of culinary and speculative literature with short stories, poetry, articles, visual art and more. We call this kitchen witchin’ - a practice of alchemy in the kitchen and on the page.
Want to keep reading? Join us on Patreon to access our entire digital library!
In 2020 we came together to produce Village X Magazine, ten volumes of original work interrogating the norms of culinary and speculative literature with short stories, poetry, articles, visual art and more. We call this kitchen witchin’ - a practice of alchemy in the kitchen and on the page.
Want to keep reading? Join us on Patreon to access our entire digital library!
A playspace and a prayer - that we may recognize freedom when we taste it.
ZINE LIBRARY
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Since 2020, our ten-volume zine series, Village X Magazine, has published recipes, short stories, gardening advice, research and more from our contributors. Each meditative volume is immersed in a specific technology of freedom - water, protection, land, pleasure, rhythm, ancestors, rest, intention, work, and choice. Contributors experiemented with how we might use these techologies to achieve food sovereignty, to deepen our connection to all life, and to thrive against all odds.
Now digitized and available for purchase! Browse and add volumes to your cart below.
Join us on Patreon to access our entire digital library and catch behind the scenes looks at what Village X has got cooking.
WATCH
Village X takes our practice across mediums to reach folks with discussions surrounding community care and liberation. These visual projects aim to bring villages together and connect us to Black history and bold futures.
THE SOUL OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY (2021)
A brief history of mutual aid in the Black church, produced in partnership with Sojourners Magazine.
FEED/BACK (2023)
When the restaurant that built them starts to shut them down, one artificially intelligent service bot decides to assemble a body that can house their consciousness permanently. A short experimental documentary made with support from the Center for Story-based Strategy. Watch the full film here.