Cooking Yoni Eggs
with Ilana Harris-Babou

August 9th, 2019

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Artist Ilana Harris-Babou and I discuss her New York City upbringing, wellness culture, Audre Lorde, and the making of her most recent work, which is up right now in the Whitney Biennial. Also, a brief tribute to my mom.

Show Notes

Ilana Harris-Babou
Brooklyn
Senegal
Senegalese Diaspora
African Time
Family Planning
Aspiration
Cooking
Audre Lorde
The Erotic
Cookbooks
Cooking Shows
Labor
Capitalism
Pleasure Activism
Adrienne Marree Brown
St. Ann’s
Friends Seminary
College Admissions
Private School
New York City
Yale
Racism
Columbia MFA
Anna Betbeze
Sarah Oppenheimer
Yoni Eggs
Vaginal Steaming



Images


1. Portrait of Ilana Harris-Babou by Aubrey Mayer. Courtesy Culturedmag.com.

2. Lamp, 2018

3-5.
Installation views, Reparation Hardware at Larrie, NYC, 2018

6-10.
Human Design, 2019

10.
Video still, Cooking with the Erotic, 2016

11.
dysfunctional ceramics, 2016-18