Jocelyn Jackson (front left) of People’s Kitchen Collective, photographed alongside artist Emory Douglas, Black Panther Party’s Minister of Culture, during the Earth Seed documentary journey across California.

KQED Arts & Culture featured Earth Seed: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality in a July 24, 2025 article exploring how People’s Kitchen Collective embarked on a pilgrimage across California rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables. Through encounters with intentional communities, mutual aid practitioners, and creative memory keepers, PKC models radical hospitality as a survival practice. The piece frames their work within histories of Black and brown resistance and announces a public screening and tour kickoff at BAMPFA in late July.

 

Jocelyn Jackson (center), co‑founder of People’s Kitchen Collective, on the road promoting EARTH SEED—a journey of radical hospitality across California inspired by Octavia Butler.

In a powerful segment of Sights + Sounds, host Jeneé Darden delves into the documentary "Earth Seed: A People's Journey of Radical Hospitality." The film chronicles how Oakland-based People's Kitchen Collective traveled through California, drawing inspiration from Octavia Butler’s Parables of the Sower to cultivate communities grounded in care and collective survival. Along their route, they share meals, stories, and strategies with people of color working toward cooperative, resilient futures.

The episode also includes interviews with children’s book author Stephanie Wildman and speculative fiction writer Cynthia Gómez. Gómez’s Latinx horror collection The Nightmare Box and Other Stories speaks to resistance in gentrifying Oakland, while Wildman’s Miri’s Moving Day uses cross-cultural storytelling to comfort young readers facing change

 

You can't fight for justice, equity and freedom on an empty stomach. The co-founders of People's Kitchen Collective (PKC), Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Jocelyn Jackson and Saqib Keval, believe in the power of conversation and community over shared meals-and the necessity of bridging racial, religious and generational divides to build solidarity.

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Chefsfeed: A Return To Our (Grass)Roots
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East Bay Express: Why 500 People Ate Lunch Together in West Oakland
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