Two years and a summer is how long it has taken me to finish graduate school. Stuffing my brain with information on cultural studies theories, theorists, ideas, principles and writing until I could not see the joy in writing any longer. I stepped away from this blog for a bit because it had seemed so much a part of me and so related to my grad school work I could not see the pleasure in it any longer. I also needed to try and remove my advisor's voice (no offense Julie!) and begin reclaiming my voice in my writing. However, on June 16th, I received my Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) degree and have decided to start writing again and focusing on my passions surrounding food advocacy, food politics and food in general. Stepping away from so much of the school papers and academic writing style and returning to writing with the goal of starting a conversation, engaging people in discussions surrounding food and food systems. There is definitely a lot to talk about out there right now!
This being said, I want to share the final pieces of my graduate school work - my final literature review paper (all 30 pages of it in it's original double spaced format; reduced to single spacing!), my presentation from the MACS conference including my slides which accompany the speech and a bit of critique surrounding these pieces.
Our class's MACS conference was a fifteen minute speech per student summarizing two years of work. The forum was open within certain boundaries and I chose to focus on the topic of hunger in Washington state.
