Liberatory Medicine Collection

Get 5 books on topics such as black, brown, and queer healing histories, medicine making and survival and sustainability. This collection contains 5 books: Queering Herbalism, Herbal Freedom School volume 1 and volume 2, Partnering with Plants and the Liberatory Sustainability zine.

• Queering Herbalism this compilation contains commentary and resources about holistic healing with an anti-oppressive (namely anti-racist and pro-queer) framework and a lens toward a more historically accurate, complete and inclusive (decolonial) history of healing. You'll find essays on the inaccessibility of modern western herbalism, the importance of an Anti-Oppression Framework in the Herbal Revolution, and the importance of a honoring our ancestors and a decolonial lens in herbalism. You'll also find essays on traditional indigenous healing, curanderismo, and two-spirit healers, medicine making basics, flower essences, radical brown health and healing and brown and queer and queer brown resources.
  

• Herbal Freedom School  a compilation of links, books, and articles about herbalism and other holistic healing modalities that complement it or intersect with it. You'll find basic medicine making, anatomy and physiology, an intro to reading the body, history of Chinese Medicine and Pan-African indigenous medicine, radical black and brown healing histories (Panthers, Zapatistas)
  

• Herbal Freedom School in the second volume compilation you'll find basic medicine making basics, flower essences, anatomy and physiology, history and concepts of Ayurveda, reading the body, continuation of Pan-African indigenous medicine article, radical black and brown healing histories (Young Lords)
  

• Partnering with Plants This resource guide centers black and brown ancestral healing histories and focuses on the ways our ancestors built relationships with and partnered w/ plants through various ceremonies, rituals and medicine making. There are plenty of reductionist “this plant for this illness” texts that we see so often so I have tried not to replicate those texts, although some articles on medicine making basics can be found within the guide. In addition to POC healing histories you will find articles about creating sacred space and suggestions on how to begin/continue partnering with plants in various ways. There are essays on plants and their role in spiritual baths and baños/sahumados de vapor and after medicine making articles, you will find a final section about healing ourselves and each other. Included in this section you'll find articles that address internalized and historical trauma and remedies for stress, anxiety and depression.
  

• Liberatory Sustainability (2nd Edition) This zine is required reading for the visionary students in the Exploring Food and Urban Change class this semester at UT Austin. It contains essays on survival and sustainability, economic justice, gender justice, queerness and food justice and where they intersect.