Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays,
poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American
black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are
de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism. By
kicking junk-food habits, the more than thirty contributors all show
the way toward longer, stronger, and healthier lives. Suffering from
type-2 diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure, and overweight
need not be the way women of color are doomed to be victimized and
live out their mature lives. There are healthy alternatives. Sistah
Vegan is not about preaching veganism or vegan fundamentalism.
Rather, the book is about how a group of black-identified female
vegans perceive nutrition, food, ecological sustainability, health
and healing, animal rights, parenting, social justice, spirituality,
hair care, race, gender-identification, womanism, and liberation that
all go against the (refined and bleached) grain of our dysfunctional
society. Thought-provoking for the identification and dismantling of
environmental racism, ecological devastation, and other social
injustices, Sistah Vegan is an in-your-face handbook for our
time. It calls upon all of us to make radical changes for the
betterment of ourselves, our planet, and--by extension--everyone.