Storytelling Matters
Because of Which Narratives
We Decide to Use
Dismantling the Dominant Narratives is a
Good Start to Decolonize Our Stories
Join Me on This Adventure of Nomadic Cooking and Storytelling
One of the most frequent problems I find in most of the content commercially available is the strong influence of that narrative we have been taught for decades, but not in film or writing schools or courses. The narrative we tell ourselves in our heads every morning when we go to work, when we cook, when we travel; all the time, every thought, the more primitive, the more tribal, the purer but also the harder to unlearn.
That is why decolonizing goes beyond criticizing the colonial system that surrounds us and defines the power structures and dynamics that control our actions and thoughts. It is also necessary to identify and understand those ideas, those concepts through which we navigate the world, those thoughts we use to define otherness, the unknown.
We have been taught that certain types of people from certain regions are friendlier than others, that there are people who by nature are more civilized or that others are cleaner, or more violent, inferiority, superiority, and so on and so forth. But beyond that, if we question those ideas, how would that change the way we relate to the rest of the world, and even how we perceive ourselves? Even beauty standards are influenced by dominant narratives.
What is Nomad Cook, Anyway?
Nomad Cook has been an experimental project in first person where I’ve been using myself as a subject to study other social dynamics. After 8 years of traveling, storytelling, teaching, writing and, overall, observing all the places I’ve been, I started to challenge how my presence affects the places I’m in. As well as how I’m read by the different people surrounding me. Cooking and Eating has been my medium since then.
Written & Motion Production
Cooking Classes in Oaxaca
What is it that drives us to want to learn about other cultures through a day of cooking?
Gentrification & Tourism in Oaxaca
A zine about gentrification and tourism in Oaxaca and the social interactions and implications around it.
Exodus
A mini-documentary that shows a more human approach of the 2018 migrant caravan in contrast to the media in Mexico and the US.
Luna: A Love and Cooking Story
An intimate and personal story based on my family stories. It’s also an experimental hybrid of a cookbook and a tale
Atzompa Pottery and Clay Tradition
The point of view and worldview of a family related to their Zapotec roots.
A New Story is Being Cooked...
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