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Jan 2021
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227. Tanya Fields Talks The Black Femini...

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On this week’s episode, Dani sits down with Tanya Fields, the Founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Project. Listen along as the two talk about inequalities of the food system and how it affects single mothers and black womxn around the world. 

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