Queer Farmland: Land Access Strategies for Small-Scale Agriculture

Leslie, Isaac Sohn

doi:10.1080/08941920.2018.1561964

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“…Informed by Tuck and Yang (2012), we use the word anti-colonial to shift the onus as settlers attempting to dismantle colonial structures in education (Tuck et al, 2014). In doing so, these pedagogical approaches seek to address the Eurocentric epistemological dominance and colonial structures of the academy including the erasure of Queer and BIPOC voices in sustainable food system projects and scholarship (Ramírez, 2014;Leslie, 2017Leslie, , 2019.…”

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Centering Justice in a Sustainable Food Systems Master's Program

Greeson¹,

Currey²

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The new Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems (MSFS) program at Prescott College was re-envisioned as part of the preferred teach out partnership with Green Mountain College that closed in 2019. In collaboration with faculty from both colleges, the new MSFS program was developed to intentionally center social justice and offer students a Food Justice concentration. Food justice is a growing movement that seeks to shift global, industrial food systems toward more equitable, just, and sustainable foodways. Using this definition, students in the Food Justice core course uncovered how forms of institutional oppression prevent certain communities from accessing healthy and culturally appropriate food. This course was designed and taught from an anti-racist, anti-colonial, and culturally sustaining pedagogical framework. The Food Justice course frames students' investigation of the current food system and how issues of privilege, access, and identity relate to food justice throughout the MSFS program. Through experiential learning, students were asked to develop and implement a project that aligns with social justice values. In this perspective paper, we describe our experiences as sustainable food systems educators in making structural changes to the master's program. We share the values and assumptions that led to the development of the Food Justice concentration and course; detail our pedagogical frameworks; and highlight students' projects as a manifestation of the student experience.

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Section: Pedagogical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Centering Justice in a Sustainable Food Systems Master's Program

Greeson¹,

Currey²

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…This special issue, unfortunately, reproduces this pattern to an extent as all papers draw from predominantly white samples. The few examples of women and queer farmers of color in this issue indicate that patterns in gender and sexual oppression and resistance vary at the intersections of race and legal status (Leslie 2019;Wypler 2019). In addition, emerging research on sexually diverse immigrant farmers in California demonstrates how the very meaning of sexuality-related language and community imagination may vary across race, ethnicity, and culture (Lizarazo et al 2017).…”

Section: Relational Agriculture and Food Justicementioning

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“…There are no existing quantitative studies on queer and transgender farmers, and the government does not collect information on sexuality and gender identity in the U.S. or USDA censuses. 3 Nevertheless, several U.S. and Canadian scholars (Edward 2018;Fellows 1998;Leslie 2017bLeslie , 2019Wypler 2019) and an ecofeminist activist in Catalonia (Dur an Gurnsey 2016) have conducted qualitative studies. In addition, an interdisciplinary group of researchers in California carried out a digital storytelling project with sexually diverse immigrant farmers (Lizarazo et al 2017).…”

Section: Queer Farmers: Re-orienting Sexual Relations On Farmsmentioning

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“…We began with a history of how the U.S. stateexemplified by 4-Hcontributed to orienting a particular set of agrarian gender and sexual relations in an effort to construct a family farm conducive to industrial agriculture (Rosenberg 2015;). As we have shown, women and queer farmers do not simply accept today's iteration of oppressive gender and sexual relations, but some actively re-orient them to create new opportunities for social justice and ecological sustainability on farms (Carter 2019;Leslie 2019;Pilgeram 2019;Shisler and Sbicca 2019;Wypler 2019). We have sought to develop an ecofeminist and queer understanding of relational agriculture as a lens for drawing attention to gender relations and also sexual relations in agriculture.…”

Section: Conclusion: Toward a More Relational Agriculturementioning

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“…Fourth, to provide support systems for rural women and queer farmers amongst a stifling culture of hegemonic masculinity, funding should be allocated for queer and women farmer organizations, which research shows have helped queer farmers thrive (Wypler 2019) and women farmers become "changemakers" (Carter 2017). Fifth, because of the general lack of queer support networks in agriculture and the importance of queer farmer mentors to beginning queer farmers (Leslie 2017b(Leslie , 2019Wypler 2019), agricultural apprenticeship programs should offer the option for mentor farmers to list themselves as "LGBTQþ" or "LGBTQþ friendly." Sixth, states can follow California's lead in enacting legislation similar to the 2017 Farmer Equity Act to bring more socially disadvantaged farmers into the policy-making arena (Collins 2017), but should include LGBTQþ farmers in the list of groups that qualify.…”

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Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming

Leslie

Wypler

Bell

2019

Society & Natural Resources

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Although 97% of U.S. farms are "family-owned," little research examines how gender and sexual relationshipsinherent in familial dynamicsinfluence farmers' practices and livelihoods. Gender and sexual dynamicsshaped by race and classaffect who is considered a farmer, land management decisions, and access to resources like land, subsidies, and knowledge. We use feminist and queer lenses to illuminate how today's agricultural gender and sexual relations are not "natural," but when left uninterrogated are constructed in ways that harm women and queer farmers while limiting potential to develop sustainable practices. Women and queer farmers also resist, "re-orienting" gender and sexual relations in ways that expand possibilities for achieving food justice and ecological sustainability. We offer "relational agriculture" as a tool for making visible and reorienting gender and sexual relations on farms. Relational agriculture brings sexuality into food justice and demonstrates the centrality of gender and sexuality to agricultural sustainability.

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Race and Food: Agricultural Resistance in U.S. History

Leslie

White

2018

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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Queer Farmland: Land Access Strategies for Small-Scale Agriculture

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Centering Justice in a Sustainable Food Systems Master's Program

Centering Justice in a Sustainable Food Systems Master's Program

Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming

Race and Food: Agricultural Resistance in U.S. History

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