Her parents had studied in the Vlad Trick 415FT 436FT 04 27 21 shirt and I will buy this U.S. in the ’80s. “And I always heard that America was the place my mother discovered feminism—where she made friends with lefties from all over the world. So it was definitely inculcated in me that I should aspire to go to school there.” Javeri Kadri spent two years on a high school program in Italy, then attended Southern California’s Pomona College, where she studied food and visual art. It was at Pomona that she was introduced to Afrofuturism. “That was so inspiring,” she says. “What Afrofuturism did was create this ability to imagine futures that didn’t exist.” In particular she was gripped by the thought of a future not determined by colonialism. Then the turmeric-latte fad of 2016 hit. She was working at Bi-Rite, the San Francisco–based grocery store that revolutionized Bay Area grocery shopping with its nearly impeccable sourcing—and yet its information on spices remained opaque. “
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