Protest Food

Protest Food is a three-part, journalistic community-based project examining how communities around the world use food as a tool for protest, solidarity, and resilience. 

The three parts are: 
(1) Protest Mooncake Workshop: 
Participants will create and consume personalized protest mooncakes using 3D-printed stamps with political messages. During the workshop, I facilitated discussions on the political significance of food, encouraging participants to reflect on its role in their own lives and communities. This workshop is inspired by Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Mooncakes in 2019.


(2) Protest Food Book: 
A 200-page book featuring nine different stories and interviews of how food is used as a medium of strength, solidarity and resistance around the world today.


(3) Protest Food Online Archive: 
A hand-coded, interactive archive documenting food’s role in social movements globally and historically. Users can contribute their own examples, making it a participatory, evolving record of food-resistance movements. This archive serves as a resource and inspiration for ongoing collective action.