Reflections Wall by Ahtziri

📝 How was food used as a tool for community care and healing during the pandemic? Any personal or cultural connections?

ahtziriesqueda24 — 2025-04-07 05:58:00 UTC

📝 What comes to mind when you hear “theorizing from home”?

ahtziriesqueda24 — 2025-04-07 06:05:27 UTC

📝 How did this reading make you feel or think?

ahtziriesqueda24 — 2025-04-07 06:05:45 UTC

📝 What traditional academic norm was challenged?

ahtziriesqueda24 — 2025-04-07 06:06:01 UTC

📝 Why is it important to center the voices of marginalized communities in research and education?

ahtziriesqueda24 — 2025-04-07 06:07:57 UTC

I believe some people chose to create their hobbies at home, such as making the famous coffee recipe on TikTok or even opened opportunities for people to open their business in baking and little treats. - Esme H.

2025-04-08 18:41:33 UTC

2025-04-08 18:41:58 UTC

This reading made me reflect on my struggles during the pandemic. I had never sat down and recognized how much Covid impacted me. I think recognizing these struggles is an important step in our healing.

Diana D.

2025-04-08 18:42:06 UTC

It made me think about all the ways that I’ve been able to connect with my mom though cooking. When I ask her questions she talks to me about how her mom taught her and how her life was in Mexico and the differences and similarities there is in our lives.

TikTok Videos during COVID

2025-04-08 18:42:55 UTC

I remember people in the community were making different types of food videos on TikTok and that was a way of spreading some type of connection with others. More people were making their own concoctions while being home.

Tammara Rodriguez

Tamales

2025-04-08 18:43:49 UTC

Food was used as a tool of healing when I learned how to make tamales with my grandma during facetime. I had wanted to help her understand how to do things online and we were also making tamales while doing that. To me this personally healed me because I was able to bring my grandma into my teach world while she taught me things about my culture. I was seeing first hand how to make something that I love to eat during the holidays with my family.

Esmeralda A.

2025-04-08 18:43:51 UTC

This reading made me think that cooking is one of the special ways to feel connected with your heritages roots. It made me also think about personal experiences I had with my family members and how much I had learned from those experiences.

2025-04-08 18:43:52 UTC

It was used as a way to help people feel better and also to share and learn new foods that you have never tried before. - Jonathan C.

2025-04-08 18:44:01 UTC

Food was both a panic for many people as the store shelf’s got cleared but it was relaxing for others. Many people began gardening veggies, baking and cooking at home. Others connected by making food from family recipes because they are time consuming and we had plenty of time.

Cecilia

2025-04-08 18:44:13 UTC

We started a garden and my parents and extended family would come and tend to the garden. We mostly grew zucchini so that was the most popular ingredient we added into our dishes. It was healing to be in the dirt and step out and feel the sun and then cook different things with the things we grew.

Put up on game!

anthonysobriety1st — 2025-04-08 18:44:52 UTC

I love this idea. This solidifies that everything my step dad taught be befor he passed holds depth, and weight in my life.

Anthony A

Amy V.

2025-04-08 18:45:03 UTC

A traditional academic norm that was challenged while during COVID-19, was what a traditional classroom would look like. There was less engagement from students due to distance learning being online. Teachers were having issues on trying to come up with what assignments they can assign online.

Gastronomy

2025-04-08 18:45:08 UTC

Good not only provides a sense of happiness and bikes community. But it also intersects with gastronomy and the act of healing your inner body and spirit. It allows us to reconnect with our past generations as well by continuing to learning how to cook passed down recipes. We give them life through food and we’re also able to heal ourselves and future generations through food.

2025-04-08 18:45:09 UTC

I think theorizing from home means taking what we learned from our home or what was ingrained into us at a young age; the good, bad & ugly and translating that into academia to heal. We can dissect our home & choose what we would like to carry on & what we would like to leave behind and/or heal from.

-Celia

2025-04-08 18:45:11 UTC

It made me reflect a lot on the pandemic and how much food was made during that time. Especially with my mom and her cooking and how me and my sister would try to make foods that we haven’t made before. - Jonathan C.

2025-04-08 18:46:20 UTC

Prior to the reading, when I would think back on the pandemic, I would just think on the big events we missed out on rather than the day to day life. After this reading, I am more appreciative of everything we can do now that the pandemic is over.

-Paula

2025-04-08 18:48:02 UTC

During the pandemic, I used tik tok to finding food recipes this helped bring communities together by sharing meals, recipes, and cultural traditions that provided comfort and fostered a sense of community care.