February 1, 6:30-8:30 PM

During this reflection, Gaëlle Aminata Colin will explore baking as ritual by connecting her personal baking practice and her work on food as a space for joy and community. She frames baking as both labor and gift and offer to consider the many ways in which baking can become a ritual for comfort and connection. This discussion will be accompanied by a small tasting and invitation to collectively reflect on rituals of giving and receiving through food.

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About Gaëlle Aminata Colin

Gaëlle Aminata Colin is French and Ivoirian and is currently a PhD student in Stony Brook University's sociology department. Her work focuses on Black women's food practices in France. Engaging with Black feminist work and food justice literature, she is currently developing a project exploring food as a space for survival, joy, and resistance. Outside academia, Gaëlle Aminata Colin also engages with food through baking and culinary photography.