rage notes FOOD FOR THOUGHT


“Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table


and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.” ―Maya Angelou


Words to live by. As we come into this holiday


season, filled with food, wine and hopefully for most of us, moments with friends and family, my thoughts turn to connections. The act of breaking bread together is something


that often falls by the wayside in our busy, busy lives. The loss of it, in my opinion, is something that can’t be replaced. Moments at a table with friends, talking about life’s ups and downs is the stuff that makes the doldrums of its everydayness, easier to bear. When was the last time you sat down at your dining table, if you even have one and chatted with your partner, children, parents, or your closest friends? It was a daily occurrence growing up for many of us and the way we knew what was happening in our immediate family and during holiday gatherings, in the larger community of our extended one. The act of dining together had a way of equalizing differences and was a moment when we all set them aside. I was reminded of such things because of the film Loving, which was just recently released. It’s the story of Mildred and Richard Loving (I know, that surname is just so beautiful), a couple who were unintentionally thrown into the battle for marriage equality. A contemporary theme for we in the LGBT community. Though for them it was a legal matter based on color and segregation. It just goes to show that equality is something we must continuously strive for, that it isn’t something we arrive at and are done with. Director Jeff Nichols put it beautifully in my interview with him for the film, “The universal concept, is the idea that equality is not something we achieve, it’s something we constantly redefine for ourselves as a society.” In light of current trends, it’s an ongoing journey and we have much work to do. Moonlight, the new film written and directed by


Barry Jenkins was another moment of revelation on many levels. A coming out tale, though still rare, is nothing new. However, this beautiful, painful and insightful rendering, told from the perspective of a young, black male is a first in a major film. A fact that I was stunned by during my conversation with actor Trevante Rhodes, who played one of the lead characters in the three part story. He said this of the storyline’s rarity, “Almost is the wrong word, they


are completely nonexistent and that’s why this is so unique. How are these stories not portrayed in the narrative? It’s crazy to me. It’s refreshing that we get to see it at the forefront of a film. Like I said, it’s never happened before and the fact that it’s resonating with people, tells me that we are yearning to hear these stories and want to understand more about everyone’s experience.” One of the things I love about being an editor, is


that you are often exposed to people and moments in time when a paradigm has begun to shift. We are in one of those moments right now and the 2016 Presidential race is a perfect representation of that disturbance. The rancorous noise is at times deafening and often disconcerting to the point of wanting to shut it out, to bury our heads in the sand in order to avoid it at all costs. I encourage you to avoid that impulse. Healthy discourse, even loud, unsettling discourse, is often the pathway to the greatest change. History shows us this over and over again in moments such as the Civil Rights Movement, our fight to stand proudly outside our closet doors and most recently in the fight to secure same-sex marriage. Opposition can be an ugly thing, but it is absolutely worth facing down, especially when it comes to the battle for true equality. African-American men and women would still be relegated to the back of the bus, if they hadn’t marched. We would still be dying of AIDS in the streets, if we hadn’t gotten up and fought and we would still be getting arrested with impunity, if we hadn’t rebelled. We would certainly never have achieved the right to marry, if we and the Lovings in their time, hadn’t stood our respective grounds and faced down those who would deny it to us. We are certainly not done and I guess that’s the point…We probably never will be. There will always be another battle and another thing to fight for...And we must still rise to those calls. But my dear friends, look how far we have come and how much has been accomplished. Something to celebrate, for certain.


Joel Martens,Editor in Chief


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