Episode 3 — The Revolution Will Be Well Fed with Corrie Locke-Hardy

Baking joy into justice: Corrie Locke-Hardy on cookbooks, queer community, and creating spaces where everyone gets fed.

May 13, 2025

What happens when you blend radical joy, social justice, and a love of baking? In this episode of Rooted Resilience, we sit down with Corrie Locke-Hardy (she/they), the queer educator, activist, and author behind The Revolution Will Be Well Fed: Recipes for Creating Community (Raspberry Bow Press, 2024). As the founder of The Tiny Activist and co-creator of Queer Kid Lit Camp, Corrie shares how her work bridges pastry and pedagogy, resistance and recipe.

Corrie is a white human with short purple hair, tattoos, and glasses. They are smiling at the camera, wearing a denim apron over a yellow shirt. They are standing at a table or counter. There are frosted donuts of different varieties on a cake stand, and some baking supplies on the counter. — Corrie Locke-Hardy, Author of “The Revolution Will Be Well Fed” and Queer Owner of The Tiny Activist

Meet Corrie, author and activist

Author Corrie Locke-Hardy (she/they) is the queer owner of The Tiny Activist, a consulting business that focuses on social justice education and literacy.

For their “first career,” Corrie spent nine years in the hospitality industry cooking professionally, concentrating on pastry and bread. They worked in a wide range of establishments, which reinforced the message that community is key.

The Revolution Will Be Well Fed: Recipes for Creating Community (2024, from Raspberry Bow Press) is a combination of Corrie’s lifelong passions for education, activism, and yummy treats. She lives a hobbit life out in western Massachusetts with her spouse and two rescue dogs. If you find her, she'll probably give you a snack.

In Episode 3, you’ll hear Corrie speak about the roots of their current work, how it continues to grow and evolve, and what the view looks like following the publication of her first cookbook. Tune in as Corrie reflects on her early days in the hospitality industry, her ADHD-fueled creativity, and the winding path that led to her debut cookbook—a project filled with granola bars, political essays, and a generous helping of hope. We also dive into the magic of queer community spaces, the challenges of publishing radical content, and what it means to nourish both body and movement.

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“I talk in the book about how we have to change things systemically, but we also have to change things immediately. And that I try to live my life where I influence the micro and the macro at the same time.” - CLH

About the book

The Revolution Will Be Well Fed by Corrie Locke-Hardy, a former pastry chef and now social justice educator, is a baking book that serves up more than delicious recipes: it asks us to find joy in community and demonstrates how organizing and resistance can be our best tools in the fight for our rights. Through 50 recipes situated alongside the history of social movements and revolutionary leaders, as well as calls to action for how to get involved in our own communities, Corrie makes the case for using food to nourish both our bodies and our resistance. In her revolution, community is valued over capitalism and no one is left behind. The Revolution Will Be Well Fed is more than just a cookbook, it’s a guide for living.

“A social movement isn't just a bunch of people doing one thing. It's a whole bunch of people doing a whole bunch of things for a really long time. And a person doesn't have to change themselves in order to be an effective leader or an effective part of a movement. All it really takes is wanting to do something that you like doing, and then deciding to do it on the behalf of others.” - CLH

The Revolution Will Be Well Fed: Recipes for Creating Community cover art. Published September 2024 by Raspberry Bow Press.

About the publisher

Raspberry Bow Press is a small press located in Skagit Valley, Washington, specializing in cookbooks. A collaboration by Michelle Gale and Tim Hubner, with experience in editorial, book-making, and design, RBP publishes books and zines focusing on regional authors and artists with an emphasis on women and food.

Hear more from Corrie

Corrie joined Weller Smith Design’s “Creatively Speaking: Food for Thought” podcast to share more about The Revolution…you can listen here.
Listen to Corrie on “Everything Cookbooks” speak more about the process of working with an independent publisher.
Follow Corrie on Instagram.

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