FROM OUR MOTHERS’ KITCHENS:

Since 2017 Our Mothers' Kitchens has hosted the Summer Workshop for Black Girls, what we lovingly refer to as "camp". Across four summers and five cohorts of campers, we have been gathering the writing, the "kitchen narratives" of our little sisters: the poems, recipes, prose and doodles that they created while we shared space on beautiful and bountiful Lenni-Lenape land at Sankofa Community Farm. When the pandemic caused us to cancel our 2020 summer camp, we decided that in times that we can't be together, when we can't weave a world of women-words around them, we can still provide our little sisters with a safe space, a way for them to wrap themselves in the warmth of Blackgirlhood. And so, we gift them (and you) our first publication, "The Warm Honey from Your Hand: Writings from the OMK Summer Workshop for Black Girls", a book containing the writings from the first three years of OMK. The gorgeous title was taken from the poem of one the 2019 little sisters. Some of our little sisters will be reading their own words, rediscovering their journey from year to year. And some are brand new to the OMK family, reading the words of their new sisters, hopefully inspired to tell their own stories. With love and black-eyed peas, enjoy.

Risograph printed in Black, Blue, Light Grey, and and Sunflower inks.
Handsewn saddle stitch with yellow thread.
6 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches.
Edition of 50.

Originally published and distributed as a part of the MFP 2021 Mail Library. For more on this project, see here.