In our final episode for S5, we talked to Jocelyn Jackson , co-founder of the in Oakland, about how we can activate radical hospitality, care, love and resistance in our communities today. How can we draw on histories of collective care taking and mutual aid, as a means to build community in at a time of multiple and ongoing genocides? How can we use creative and artistic means to cultivate the resources, relationships, and sustenance that our communities need? Check out the full episode on our YT channel - link in bio ❤️
Guest bios:
Jocelyn’s passion for seasonal food, social justice, creativity, and community is rooted in a childhood spent on the Kansas plains. Her family would sing a song before sharing a soulful meal. Since then, Jocelyn has practiced law, taught environmental science and ethics, become a yoga instructor, and created performance and visual art. Jocelyn founded JUSTUS KITCHEN to continue to create food experiences that inspire people to reconnect with themselves, the earth, and one another. And she still begins every meal with a song.
People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC) works at the intersection of art and activism as a food-centered political education project. Based in Oakland, California, our creative practices reflect the diverse histories and backgrounds of our crew. Written in our families’ recipes are the maps of our migrations and the stories of our resilience. It is from this foundation that we create immersive experiences that honor the shared struggles of our people. We believe in radical hospitality as a strategy to address the urgent social issues of our time.
Love Intersections
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Q***r BIPOC media arts collective producing intersectional / intergenerational film & artwork
Love Intersections is a media arts collective made up of q***r artists of colour dedicated to using collaborative art making and relational storytelling to address systemic racism in our communities. We produce intersectional and intergenerational stories from underrepresented communities of colour – centering the invisible, the spiritual, the metaphysical and the imaginary. We believe in deep and
05/05/2026
It’s been a big past few months for ❤️
We wrapped our “Beyond Borders: Between Stories” event series with our amazing collaborators and partners, including a figure drawing event with , an event on migrant justice, and a collective poetry and art making workshop centering stories of q***r Sikh, muslim and South Asian youth and allies. Thank you to for facilitating a food and sensory activity, and to for leading us in a collective poetry exercise.
We also celebrated our 12 year anniversary, with a new operating grant from the City of Vancouver! We are grateful to be trusted with multi-year funding, so that we can continue to cultivate projects that serve community needs. We can’t wait to share what we have in store over the next year.
..and finally, our co-founder, , celebrated a very special milestone birthday 🥳
Photos of the q***r Sikh, muslim and South Asian youth event by
Thank you to our funders: Canadian Heritage, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, and Canada Council for the Arts
04/19/2026
We launched a new art project today with our friends at the Migrant Workers Centre (.bc ), where we will be releasing a series of public art pieces during FIFA, on the topic of migrant justice. Thank you to all the awesome people who came out today to share powerful stories of their lived experiences as migrant workers here in so-called Canada ❤️❤️❤️
03/30/2026
On April 11th, join for an experimental, embodied, and experiential-centered figure drawing workshop facilitated by painter and movement artist . RSVP link in bio :)
“Beyond Borders, Between Stories: Figure Drawing workshop” is an experimental, embodied, and experiential centered figure drawing workshop facilitated by painter and movement artist Odera Igbokwe. In this workshop participants have the opportunity to draw the figure in the classic format of gesture drawings and long poses of the n**e and the draped figure. Additionally participants can experience and exercise their relationship to their own bodies and their drawing practice.
This figure drawing workshop honours the history of artist as muse, while envisioning collaborative futurities where artists and creatives expand the possibility of drawing while diffusing hierarchies and archetypal power dynamics.
No prior art experience is needed.
This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, and the
BC Arts Council
As a witch of the reclaiming tradition and a radical faerie, Andrew Shopland shares how burnout led him back to spiritual practice, collective healing, and a deeper relationship with place and belonging.
“This land doesn’t belong to me. I belong to it.” Andrew Shopland speaks about building place-based, non-extractive spiritual practices grounded in responsibility, humility, and q***r community.
Listen to the full episode on our YT channel, link in bio ❤️
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Educator, researcher, and drag artist Daniel “Gaia” Gallardo ( ) joins us to explore how decolonial education and drag pedagogy can dismantle colonial binaries and create safer futures for two-spirit, trans, and q***r youth.
Listen to the full episode on our YT channel, link in bio ❤️
reminds us that decolonizing begins with remembering. Her work unearths pre-colonial Southern African cosmologies while nurturing q***r and neurodivergent youth through mentorship, storytelling, and spiritual care.
For Nokuthula/The African Scientist, healing is a form of storytelling, a way to remember who we were before borders, binaries, and erasure. Through art, ancestral research, and collective care, she helps others return to themselves. Check out episode 3 on our YouTube channel, as we get into deeply vulnerable, emotional and joyful conversations of how we’ve learned to love our spiritual journey, and thrive in our connection to our ancestors and spiritual pasts lost to colonialism and slavery.
10/29/2025
Spences Bridge, Nlakaʼpamux territory ❤️
10/26/2025
After 4 years of collaborating with Nadine .spence.art on Healing Journey, we finally came out to Spences Bridge, Nlakaʼpamux territory, to visit her home, and film with her family. Thanks to Nadine and Chellane, Autumn, Atheana, Sara, Tyson, Rhodna, Peter, and Marla, for spending time, sharing with us, and welcoming us around the first fire at the spiral garden. This fourth film will continue to follow the movement that Nadine is cultivating: to honour the legacy of grandmothers and Indigenous women, and to build and foster community strength.
“Honouring our Grandmothers Healing Journey” is a multiyear, multi-community, multi-generational journey that brings together people and places of the Fraser and Thompson River watersheds, mountains, salmon, and ocean to honour our Grandmothers’ lived experiences, story, and legacy left for those of us to discover, and to share through storytelling, teachings, ceremony, and art.
At , food isn’t fusion, it’s resistance. Chef Saqib Keval joins us on Hot Pot Talks to talk about how he and chef Norma Listman are reimagining the restaurant as a site of food justice, anti-colonial hospitality, and Global South solidarity.
From pop-up dinners to a full restaurant, Masala y Maíz began as a love letter to migration, memory, and movement. Chef Saqib Keval joins us on this episode of Hot Pot Talks to talk about cooking as a political act, and what it means to build an anti-colonial kitchen from the heart of Mexico City.
What does a restaurant look like when it centers justice over profit? Chef Saqib Keval of Masala y Maíz shares how he and chef Norma Listman built an anti-capitalist kitchen grounded in collective leadership, food sovereignty, and care.
Full episode is up on our YouTube channel!
Part 2 of Hot Pot Talks S5 Episode 1 with Siwe Ntombela, on reclaiming Indigenous food practices:
“When I had moved to Joburg and met the team, and they’d taken me on this incredible food tour, where you can find foods from Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Nigeria, all within like four blocks, you know, in the inner city, which is, you know, really incredibly exciting, actually, for someone who’s also into space and cities and design. So just seeing those two worlds kind of expressed together in that way was just so exciting for me.
Seeing the urban representation of African food, or even just the African identity, because I think we speak a lot about that understanding what our identity is, and food is obviously a huge part of that.”
Episode 3 with Saqib Keval from drops next Monday ❤️
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