Antiracist Kafeta

The Antiracist Kafeta is a mutual aid initiative and a form of political nourishment inspired by the long tradition of autonomous movements in Barcelona. We begin from a radical premise: cooking, eating, and collectively inhabiting the space of the table are deeply political acts—rituals of gathering capable of activating forces for social transformation and self-defense against the logics of capitalism and systemic racism.

Through this gastronomic gathering, we activate oral memory, anti-colonial cooking, and storytelling to weave a network of care and transnational mutual support. Today, our action centers on an urgent front of resistance: supporting migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, who endure a double form of violence. On one hand, structural racism that precarizes their lives; on the other, the devastating consequences of Israel’s war against Lebanon, which has displaced entire communities and destroyed the country’s infrastructure.

We look forward to welcoming you to share food, words, and to collectively mobilize the economic resources needed to sustain those who, from the other side of the Mediterranean, defend life on a daily basis.

Activity promoted by the Gastronomy Guild 2025/2026: Antonio Monroy Salas and Mohammad Alsharqawi

With the participation of Sindillar and Yara El Harake

Sindillar / Sindihogar is the first independent union of domestic and care workers in Spain, founded in Barcelona as a space for organization, resistance, and social transformation. Made up of migrant and diverse women, the union challenges structural precarity, institutional racism, and the transnational kafala system. From a feminist, queer, and anti-racist perspective, they use cooking as a political space of memory, fostering community bonds and mutual support to defend labor rights, build networks of care, and sustain dignified lives.

Yara El Harake is an artist, cook, researcher, and Arab hakawatiya (storyteller), as well as a feminist and queer practitioner with more than ten years of experience. From an anti-colonial and anti-racist perspective, she understands cooking as a political space of memory and resistance. Her practice explores how food operates both as a tool of violence and as a means of emotional sustenance and care. Focused on the relationship between body, territory, and culture, her work moves across research, visual arts, and mediation, generating collective processes of repair, rootedness, and the reappropriation of identities.