The Ciba Punch 女拳手打糍粑

The Ciba Punch 女拳手打糍粑 is a public performance series that invites community members to punch steamed sticky rice into rice cakes. Ciba is a kind of Chinese rice cake that is eaten with brown sugar and other dips. In bringing this food-making process to the public, they hope to reclaim the feminized labor of cooking in domestic spaces and foster cross-cultural connections and movement building. Spiritual Figures, led by Julia Santoli, symbolize queer feminist ancestors and future selves. They will roam around the punchers to provide sonic, somatic, and spiritual guidance.

In the spirit of queer/feminist ethics of care, they invite you to bring your grief, rage, love, and hope – and transform them into food that nourishes our community. Let’s punch!