Why Potlucks, Why Now

Deviled eggs, rice salad, mac and cheese, lasagna, chips and salsa, chili, fried zucchini, pumpkin pie, apple crisp...

Who doesn't love a good potluck? A party where the dress is always casual and you can't bring the wrong dish. The luck isn't only in the pot, it is also in the people. Who will come? Who will bring a sister you've never met before? Will the new neighbors come? And the old neighbors you've been meaning to invite over for two years-or ten?

Our current federal government - wannabe authoritarian state - wants us to be scared; wants us to feel isolated and separated; wants us to fear our neighbors; wants us to believe that their wholesale attempt to repress our rights is inevitable.

Well, screw that.

Right now community organizing is needed at the street level, because we are in an emergency across this country where masked men without identification and with impunity are abducting our family members and neighbors for having brown skin, for being "foreign" in their eyes, for standing in the way of them exerting abusive power.

But now is also the right time to gather with neighbors, to celebrate our connections and strengthen our ties. When the masked men leave in shame, and they will, we will continue to have all the other needs in our neighborhoods-personal emergencies, citywide situations, or another round of flooding across the state. And we will also continue to need each other just because.

SO: Let's gather, let's eat together, and let's share in our strength and resolve.

We invite you to host a potluck. We invite you to attend a potluck. We are #potluckstrong!

I'm bringing a pot of rice. It goes with everything. What are you bringing?

Potlucks have deep roots in Vermont:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/opinion/potluck-community-loneliness.html

We aren't the only people who think Potlucks are the best way to fight facism:

https://thewhitepages.net/p/seven-reasons-why-hosting-a-silly

QCVI - March 6, 2026