People’s Medicine gatherings began in winter 2023, co-facilitated by Chicago herbalists and friends, and guided by dreams and questions:
What worlds have we been preparing for?
What roles are we called into as we move toward liberation for all?
Through this transdisciplinary workshop series, participants are guided by local specialists and trained herbalists in embodied skills for response, revolution, and apocalypse. A loving experiment in scaling the care work of Freedom Fighter Herbs, we also create bulk herbal remedies for mutual aid.
Herbal medicine is and has always been for the people. All distributions from these workshops center Palestinian, Arab and/or Muslim folks, and BIPOC Freedom Fighters in Chicago. Participants leave workshops with recipes, herbal knowledge, resources for further learning, and one of each remedy they create.
Our bodies know, from experience and histories of global state-sanctioned brutality, that western colonial powers on any level will never protect us from harm. We witness this now through genocides in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo, here on Turtle Island, and beyond. Grounded in a framework of Wellness and Protection created by the #LetUsBreathe Collective, we take action to prevent and respond to the expansion of empire.
My/our best work is not on the internet - but here are 2 resources we are able to share:
