The Roti Collective is a series of collaborative public events and academic engagements to study and celebrate roti, a global food eaten across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, roti-makers, and their diasporas everywhere.
The Roti Collective’s events and projects are intentionally done in community, or in other words, collaboratively with students, artists, and writers.
Designed to highlight the people who have sustained and, importantly, continue to make roti today, our work reorients the attention to roti-making as a community-making, community-nourishing, community-sustaining practice that is expressed in multiple ways. This project seeks to uplift roti as an integral part of roti diaspora everyday mealtime and to celebrate and learn from the beauty and craft of roti-making.
The Roti Collective work centers roti-making as the connective cultural practice between people and communities across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for over 300 years of migration, displacement, colonization, patriarchy, and other systems of stratification and inequality.
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