key texts / authors / practitioners in the lineage of this project:
★ Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
★ Herbalista free clinic / free school
★ Solidarity Apothecary
★ Toi Scott's Queering Herbalism
★ Herbalists Without Borders Bristol's herbal yearbook
★ alexis cunningfolk
★ Cradle Community (who created the tub of tiger balm that helped me realise for the first time that any of us can make our own medicine)
Chickweed (Stellaria media) growing in an agricultural field on the South Downs between crops. High in minerals, we ate this green as salad and in soups.
an extension of the mutual aid work being done in the Brighton Care Collective, burning mugwort is a slow-moving + meandering journey towards other ways of relating.
whether we're teaching ourselves healing through podcasts and library books, giving herbs to our friends, finding the knots in our loved ones' backs, or growing flowers in our gardens...
burning mugwort is about listening + offering.
burning mugwort is an effort to rework our relationship with body & place
burning mugwort
Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) fungi growing in Wild Park nature reserve . These fungi can support the immune system through regular use. We made a broth with some of these, and filled capsule with the dessicated ground marc.
maisie (/gravy) winter
facilitator of burning mugwort