Banana
a decolonial feminist zine
Banana; a decolonial feminist zine
The bananas we grow on the farm, reflected back to us within the critical decolonial feminist pedagogy of Françoise Vergès. This zine exists at the intersection of Lara Sheehi’s feminist killjoy course thru the Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory Education, and Adam Broomberg’s concepts course asking us, among other things, to create an ethical and sustainable studio practice.
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Mancheplátano
The banana and class (La mancha—the “stain” that cannot be removed)
Independentista Luis Lloréns Torres wrote his poem at the height of the cultural creation of Puerto Rican identity. The jibaro-centered identity intended to collapse race and class for the sake of the political project. The mancha de plátano references Puerto Ricanness, but only the poor campesino and urban working class ever really deals with the sticky banana sap and resulting mancha.1
The banana and repair (Unripe banana is an outstanding source of healthy fiber and starch that can repair a damaged gut-improving the micro biome and helping the body heal itself, water-intensive banana plants act as water towers, storing water in wet seasons and then redistributing it back into the environment in periods of drought)