feeding the narrative revolution
Stirring Change: Storytelling Potluck
This event brings together community members to share culturally significant dishes and personal stories—centered around themes like immigration and belonging—to reshape the dominant narrative around Asian American identities.
By pairing food and storytelling, the potluck fosters intentional listening and communal empathy, elevating underrepresented voices and creating space for shared understanding.
Rather than a lecture or panel, the format emphasizes mutual exchange, ensuring participants become active agents in their own storytelling.
Food holds a profound and sacred place in Asian American culture—not only as nourishment, but as a vessel for memory, identity, and connection. Across generations and diasporas, food has been a means of preserving traditions, resisting assimilation, and expressing care in the face of displacement and invisibility.
In many Asian American gatherings, sharing a meal becomes a way to honor ancestors, transmit stories, and bridge differences across languages, histories, and experiences. The act of cooking or eating together fosters belonging and trust, offering a powerful, embodied language through which community can be built.
