announcing: Potluck!

[glass_icarus]

Thanks to several posts (including but not limited to deepad's Doodh se Dhuli, vi's gross, weird, inedible, and troisroyaumes's Seven things), yiduiqie and I were inspired to start an ongoing food carnival! We are happy to announce a call for submissions for the first Potluck, as well as suggestions for themes and volunteers for future hosts.

Potluck is intended to be a carnival for multicultural and intersectional discussions of food. There are no real limits on theme; however, the focus of the carnival is on thoughts and experiences around food through various topics that you might see around the social justice blogosphere, including but not limited to food discussions intersecting with disability, gender, sexuality, fat, animal rights and of course cultural and racial issues. We welcome you to share your recipes as well as your thoughts and experiences, but we ask that you do not submit posts with recipes only. eta; Submissions can be in any format you choose- essays, personal anecdotes, art, comics, etc.- so long as they meet the previous requirements./eta

The theme for the first edition, which I will be hosting here, is holidays. Submissions can range from those holidays you might be celebrating approximately nowish, such as Christmas, Lunar New Year, and Hannukah, or recently celebrated, like Eid al-Adha, or any other holidays you observe throughout the year. You can leave submissions in the comments of this post, or drop me a line at glass_icarus AT dreamwidth DOT org.

Please feel free to submit links to your own posts or to someone else's. You may submit multiple links. Links will be included at the discretion of the host. This carnival is not DW/LJ specific; we welcome anyone to participate from other blogging platforms. The deadline for submissions for the first edition of Potluck is JANUARY 21, 2011.

Comments

[yiduiqie]

WOOOO.

I should crosspost this.

[glass_icarus]

\o/!!

[kairia]

This is a brilliant idea! I haven't written anything in ages but I'm tempted to churn out something for this! :D

[glass_icarus]

HOMG, if you have time, yes please!! :D &hearts

[whymzycal]

This is one of the best ideas ever!

[glass_icarus]

Haha, well, since it seemed like a whole bunch of people agreed with our DO WANT, we went ahead and started it. SO EXCITED!! :)

[whymzycal]

I can't wait to read everything and follow all the pretty, pretty linkspam!

[vi]

EXCITING! Are art and comics acceptable? ^^

[yiduiqie]

OF COURSE.

[glass_icarus]

~YES~

-- in fact lemme go ahead and add that to the post right now!!

[lovepeaceohana]

this sounds like the perfect opportunity to grill* my mother and aunts about their food memories. and, conveniently, they'll all be in town for the hols.

i am absolutely not rubbing my hands together with glee.

*pun not entirely intended

[glass_icarus]

Yay!! :D

[bewize]

I think this is an AWESOME idea, but I have a few questions. Is this going to be hosted here at your journal? Or is there a community for it? And, I know this is the first one, so there may be room for discussion, but I hope there is room for discussion and maybe, you know, trying these recipes and then talking about them?

I AM SO EXCITED!

[glass_icarus]

The first edition is going to be hosted here, but we'll be rotating future hosts to (hopefully!) change up the pool of participants. yiduiqie's doing the next one. We've sort of structured Potluck along the lines of the Asian Women Blog Carnival, if you'd like an idea of the format/how this works.

Each edition is going to be a one-time link roundup, but there's nothing to stop you from trying any recipes people might share and posting about them later on, or to discuss in the comments of the linked posts.

[dhobikikutti]

Cross-post this to the spice rack, please? And yay, good on you for starting this!

[glass_icarus]

Haha, will do! :)

[sophinisba]

Yay for this!

[glass_icarus]

\o/!! :D

[escritoireazul]

This is going to be so awesome. Thank you for doing this.

[glass_icarus]

So excited!! :D

[surpassingly]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee so awesome so awesome so awesome ♥ ♥ ♥!

Definitely submitting!

[glass_icarus]

OMG YAY!!!!! :D &hearts &hearts

-- also, thanks for linking! :*

[starlurker]

I will definitely be submitting to this once work has stopped trying to drown me. I love food and will blather on and on and on about it if given a chance!

I'm also curious to see if previous posts of mine would fit the bill. I did some food related posts during 3 Weeks for Dreamwidth and was wondering if such posts would fit what you were looking for. If you have the time and inclination, they are over here. I don't wan't to resubmit them, but it would give me an idea as to whether I need to rethink my approach for Potluck.

[glass_icarus]

Yayyyy, awesome! :3 Hopping over to have a look.

[kaz]

\o/ this sounds awesome. I am going to try to write a post to participate (there's a pretty big culture-disability clash around food that happens to me around Christmas) but in case I don't manage, I recently wrote a post about food and disability involving the issues of cooking on limited spoons and how various writers of recipe books for disabled people appear not to have realised this. I'm not sure if it'd qualify because it's not about holidays (at least not specifically) but you might be interested?

[glass_icarus]

Thank you for the link, and for sharing your perspective! :)

[oyceter]

Haha, I totally forgot about this! Uh, I just posted this on learning to cook Chinese food, but while it has a little to do with holidays (I learned largely because my sister was here visiting for them), it's not specifically about holidays, so don't know if you want to include.

[glass_icarus]

Hee, I have actually had your post open in a tab all day; just haven't had the time to click over until now. :D Thanks for the link!

[delux_vivens]

I can make this a public post at sex and race?

[glass_icarus]

Sure! :)

[oyceter]

Ahaha, and now this one has holidays and not much food...

http://oyceter.dreamwidth.org/930297.html

[glass_icarus]

Yay, thanks for the link! :D

[marina]

Kind of a giant picspam of foods I had on holiday in Odessa, although that's holiday in the British, not the US sense, so IDK. I *think* this qualifies for the purposes of the fest? But you know, IDK.

[glass_icarus]

Thanks for the link! :D

[starlurker]

My post is here. Hope it fits in with what you were looking for. My apologies for the rather late posting, but work is an anaconda determined to eat me whole.

[glass_icarus]

Thanks for the link! :)

[lovepeaceohana]

I managed to write something! It is kind of rambly, but does cover both food and holidays, so hopefully it's okay for the carnival?

[glass_icarus]

Thanks for the link! :)

[ey]

::facepalm:: Forgot to comment with the link to my potluck post at my blog, mea culpa!

[glass_icarus]

Thanks for the link! :)

[vi]

Oh gosh, this is a quick comic. If it's too late to be included, I understand, please ignore it in that instance!

[glass_icarus]

Thanks for the link! :)