Project LETS

🌱 Join Project LETS and community herbalists/folks with lived experience (on June 20th)— for a virtual panel discussion centering the intersections of Madness, disability, and herbal medicine through a lens of liberation, kinship, and ancestral reclamation.

Register: www.bit.ly/lets-herbalism

We are approaching plants not as a replacement for psychiatry or a set of tools to “fix” people, but as a practice of intentional relationality and a deep medicine in its own right.

This panel is part of our broader commitment to building and sustaining community-rooted, non-pathologizing approaches to mental health and healing.

Together, we’ll explore how we can work with plant medicine to support us in navigating altered states, easing chronic pain, and nourishing our nervous systems. We’ll connect with ancestral knowledge systems that have often been stolen or suppressed through colonial, imperial, and carceral violence.

Many of us—especially multiply marginalized Mad, neurodivergent, Disabled, and psychiatric survivor communities—have been told that plant medicine is unsafe, inaccessible, or incompatible with our bodies and experiences. This panel (and the series to follow) invites us to challenge those narratives to reclaim herbal medicine on our own terms.

✨ Meet our panelists!
- Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Balm in Gilead)
- Nicole Rose (Solidarity Apothecary)
- Atava Garcia Swiecicki (Ancestral Apothecary)
- Simone Sobers
- Myrna (Flor y Machete)

❤️‍🔥 This event is also a fundraiser for Moonpence Farm & Serenitys Herbs! Check out their website for more information on sustaining their farm.

Register by donation & nobody turned away for lack of funds. We will have ASL interpretation available and a recording. More information about donations, free access form, and access information on our website & Eventbrite page.

You can also visit: projectlets.org/herbalism

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