"Belonging and Conjuring: The Healing Magic Of Black Cook Pots"
In this 60min offering mother and child duo, B. Anderson, Jr. (They/Them) and their Mother "Queen Bea" Anderson return to the conference to help us re-member and uplift the freedom seeking dishes that crossed the Atlantic, survived through emancipation and with us always as a flame to light the path of our towards joy, imagination and possibility.
Through combining the grandmother wit and wisdom of 82 year old Queen Bea and the study and practice of plants and culinary art's by her daughter B. Anderson, the two will cook, cackle and share stories with participants exploring the medicinal, spiritual, and scientific properties of a native tree to B. Anderson and Queen B's Mississippi Choctaw ancestors, the Choctaw Pecan.
Together they will share one of B. Anderson's favorite family recipes, her great-great -grandmother's Pecan Pie, honoring a legacy of Black Native traditions, ancestry and creative genius that lives on through many across the African diaspora. Join "Belonging and Conjuring: The Healing Magic Of Black Cook Pots" to reignite your ancestral legacy of medicine made from stirring, sifting, and the kneading of recipes that birthed our freedom.
B. Anderson (they/them) is a somatic & music therapy practitioner, herbalist, meditation teacher, mediator and community organizer. B. calls up the traditions, legacies and medicine of their southern Black American, Jamaican Maroon and Choctaw ancestry as their healing arts praxis. As a lifelong student of her mothers, fathers and elders plant medicine traditions, B. became an apprentice of Karen Rose in their honor in 2018 and certified in Ayurvedic Medicine with Dr. Naina Marballi.
"Queen Bea" Anderson (she/hers), born and raised in Mississippi knows the life and also the practice of living through the Jim Crow era. Taught to grow and make medicine from farm to table chef, baker, writer, doll collector, plant steward, and mother of five children has the gift of JOY and the teachings of her Fulani, Black Native resilience etched deep into her spirt.
