Fermenting Cultural Tension into Flavor

Using kimchi as method, we explore the power of discomfort, contradiction, and transformation. Culture doesn’t snap. It ferments. For community organizations and multi-identity teams, and DEI practitioners.

My Mother’s Alien
Water Kimchi Recipe

Crunchy Vegetables
Blue skies means sunshine, means food. Plants are the first tech that nourished life on Earth. Kimchi always starts with crunchy vegetables.

Water + Salt
Some ancestral stories say we came from the sea. Can we imagine a future from a shared present, rather than a divided past? Can you taste the sea?

Your Hot Mess
What are your entanglements? Instead of avoiding, dousing, or trying to contain these fiery topics, we’re turning up the cultural heat by kimchi-ing our way to more digestibility.

Dazzle
What is the food for this hot mess moment? How do we nourish our Modern Hungers of dislocated, disconnect, disintegrated? What are your deepest needs, most desperate desires, and wildest dreams?

Tiny Wild + Time
What is the flavor of change? Let’s kimchi our way through our hot messes with crunchy plants in salt water brine, a dash of dazzle, the tiny wild, and time