Nourishment

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We are enjoying this slow season, grateful for what we have and opening our wallets for those who experience food insecurity. In the first of two episodes about food justice, we discuss our Thanksgiving feels and talk with Ebony Derr, financial manager at the Okra Project, which nourishes Black trans people with meals and community. Plus, our favorite Thanksgiving movies, what we're eating, and flashpoint feelings around okra (the food itself).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:03.0	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:05.6	I'm Amina Tusso and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:08.2	One thing I have always really loved about this holiday for myself is like the real prompt
0:13.8	to slow down and be grateful for the vast amount of love and resources and safety and comfort in my life.
0:23.1	A lot of people cannot either afford to do that or do not have, you know, family structures
0:29.6	that allow for that kind of just like traditional the fake like what Thanksgiving should be,
0:35.3	like that image. And this year like a lot of past years I have made a decision that I am not
0:42.4	shopping on Black Friday because I actually don't need anything and it really just illustrates
0:49.3	again this like culture of excess that we live in. And instead I have tried to really redirect
0:55.2	my money towards causes that I really care about or give it to people who are doing good work.
1:02.1	And one of these organizations is the Okra Project which is a wonderful org that basically
1:10.0	combats food insecurity in the Black transgender community. And so to that end today I talk to
1:17.0	Ebony Durr who is the financial manager at the Okra Project and she just really really blew
1:23.7	my mind and is such a wonderful person and has so much to say about the issue of food insecurities
1:33.2	within the trans community about how we can all better show up. It just really showed me the
1:40.6	possibilities of really investing in something over the long term.
2:11.1	Hello, hello. Happy Thanksgiving. Are we saying that? Happy Thanksgiving. Happy day after
2:19.5	Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving I will say in the canon of American holidays is my favorite holiday
2:26.4	from like a social standpoint. But you can't like stand too hard because it's not great.
2:32.7	It's not great. Regardless of like not being able to do the normal things we might be doing this
2:38.8	time of year I am still excited for the break from work and from the everyday. Like I'm kind of
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