Food was the first place many of us learned to mask.
To perform. To cook “the right way.” To hide our sensory needs. To swallow shame and call it strength. Feeding the Unmasked Body is where Natalee returns to the roots — soul food lineage, ancestral resilience, Black cultural survival, and the racial health disparities that shaped her body before language ever could. This essay is not just an introduction to her cookbook. It is a declaration of autonomy — choosing nourishment that does not silence, overload, or punish the body… but frees it. It is the emotional and ancestral center of the entire Vegan Soul Tribe ecosystem… and the blueprint for reclaiming nourishment as identity, ancestry, and unmasking.
Understand why neurodivergent bodies benefit from simple, predictable, low-sensory meals.
Use 30-minute recipes and pantry systems to make daily life calmer and more accessible.
Reclaim nourishment, not performance; cook without masking and honor your cultural background.
What you'll learn
Understand why neurodivergent bodies benefit from predictable, low-sensory meals
Discover how sensory overwhelm, shutdown, and masking show up in the kitchen — and why simplifying food supports clarity, regulation, and self-trust.
Reconnect nourishment with ancestry, culture, and identity
Explore how veganism for Natalee became a return to autonomy, lineage, and survival — not a rejection of soul-food tradition, but a reclaiming of what raised her.
Learn how unmasking begins with feeding yourself without performance
See how Natalee shifted cooking from performing flavor, femininity, and “normalcy” to eating in ways that truly honor her autistic, Black, queer identity — opening the door to ancestral healing and everyday wholeness.
About the Digital Download: Feeding the UNMASKED Body
This preview essay, “Feeding the UNMASKED Body,” offers a first look into The Convenient Vegan Cookbook — a cross-generational coursebook for nourishment, structure, and ancestral healing. It blends whole-food plant-based eating with autistic self-regulation practices. Through stories, teachings, and rituals from Natalee’s nomadic year, readers learn how to use food as a tool for clarity, rhythm, and self-trust. The essay is the doorway. The cookbook is the full path.
About the Creator: Natalee
Natalee Eason is a Black autistic, queer, and nomadic filmmaker, storyteller, and 5-year vegan living her unmasking in real time. Through 11,000+ hours of filmed life across the U.S. and abroad, she documents what it means for a neurodivergent woman to regulate, self-heal, and rebuild identity while navigating sensory needs, solitude, and ancestral truth. Her work centers the women who were overlooked, undiagnosed, or praised for surviving — but never supported in understanding their own bodies. Her entire ecosystem, Vegan Soul Tribe, is built on her signature M.A.M.M.A.L.™ Framework — a self-regulation and personal development model rooted in Mindful Energy, Advocacy Through Action, Masking Awareness, Movement as Expression, Ancestral Connection, and Love as Leadership. This framework is the spine of everything she creates, including The Convenient Vegan Cookbook, where food becomes a tool for nervous system regulation, structure, cultural memory, and everyday clarity. Through whole-food recipes from her original 2022 cookbook, cyclical womb-care meals, sensory-safe pantry rituals, candid mask-off kitchen footage, and the community container Tribe Kitchen Connect, Natalee teaches neurodivergent women how to nourish themselves without shame or performance. Her work helps women reconnect with their culture, their sensory needs, their body’s rhythms, and their unmasked identity — using nourishment as ancestral healing and daily self-leadership.
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