Season 3, Episode 5: Sovereign Food

Tarneen Onus-Williams, Hasib Hourani and Muhib Nabulsi will share their personal food related stories for this episode today. The theme for today’s episode was first inspired by the piece The Politics and Solidarity of Food which you can find in Overland online here: https://overland.org.au/2021/06/the-politics-and-solidarity-of-food/

Tarneen Onus-Williams is a community organiser for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance and has worked on Invasion Day, Black Deaths in Custody and Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal Communities in WA. They are a filmmaker and writer and have been published in IndigenousX, NITV and RightNow. Tarneen’s day job is supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are victims/survivors and perpetrators of family violence. You can also find Tarneen's great baking account @blakbaker on Instagram.

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, and arts worker living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Hasib is a 2020 recipient of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter Scheme and is currently working on a book of experimental poetry about suffocation and the occupation of Palestine. Hasib writing challenges expectations of land, identity, and the relationship between the two. You can find Hasib’s work in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry, and Going Down Swinging, among others.

Muhib Nabulsi is a disabled person living with chronic illnesses, an unproductive writer, a novice filmmaker, a 2nd gen diaspora Palestinian (aka a Palestinian), a disorganised community organiser, and a service industry worker.

This podcast was audio produced by Joe Buchan. Our theme music was created by Thu Care and the artwork for each episode was created by Molly Hunt. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured in this episode on the EWF website at emergingwritersfestival.org.au. This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. EWF pays respects to elders past and present and acknowledges sovereignty was never ceded.