Queering Herbalism
Subtitle: Essentials!
By: Toi Scott
Publisher: the author
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, TX?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Alternative medicine; Handbooks, manuals; Political aspects; Transgender people
Description: Created by queer-identified, gender-nonconforming herbalist of color, Toi Scott compiles articles and resources about Scott's indigenous and black ancestors and their relationship to healing and nature. Scott includes a section on medicine making basics, explores traditional indigenous healing outside of the gender binary, and discusses healthcare under capitalism. The cover is green and features the Black Power fist colored in rainbow.
Notes: Cover title.

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Table of contents: title: I. Reclamation and reflections --; title: The inaccessiblity of modern western herbalism  --; title: no herbal revolution without an anti-oppression framework  --; title: We are the sum of our ancestors, decolonizing herbalism and other healing modalities --; title: My healing story  --; title: --; title: II. Traditional indigenous healing  --; title: Medicine according to Cherokee legend  --; title: Indigenous medicine and environmental justice - part 1  --; title: --; title: III. Trans* and two-spirit healers  --; title: Queer shamanism: intersexed, bi, and transgendered shamans: men-women, gatekeepers, and fairy mounds --; title: Two-spirit people: gender varians & resistance in Onkewhon:we culture --; title: Hearing two-spirits  --; title: Gatekeepers between worlds  --; title: --; title: III. Medicine making basics  --; title: How to make a medicinal tea --; title: How to make a tincture --; title: How to make an herb-infused oil --; title: How to make herbal salves & balms  --; title: --; title: VI. Radical brown health and healing  --; title: Black berets, white coats: the Black Panther Party for medical self-defense  --; title: The Young Lords: 10 point health program revolutionary healthcare program for the people  --; title: Autonomous healthcare in the Zapatista communities  --; title: Brown resources --