Herbal medicine is not apolitical — and practitioners have an opportunity to leverage that. Many people who are familiar with my work publicly are most acquainted with what I’ve done in the realm of racial justice and white fragility, namely with my zine, A Letter to My White Friends. Those…

A love letter, a manifesto, a reminder. This poem was borne out of a time when, after hitting rock bottom from years of unaddressed abuse, trauma, and burnout, I finally found myself recovering and feeling some semblance of self-determination in my life. I decided to write a letter to myself…

Finding identity, community, and resistance in stillness. — It’s 2:36 P.M. I’m dehydrated. I lean weakly against a metal railing outside a Nevada gas station while I eat the rest of a breakfast burrito. I gaze wearily at my car, the silver paint flickering in the desert sun. …

We can shut down the machine by sharing. Many of us deal with these questions all our lives: How will I pay my rent? How will I buy food? We deal with them so regularly and deeply that answering them seems to become the very point of our existence. Capitalism…

Cultural appropriation is a sore spot for many people I know. No one likes to be told they can’t have something. However, that doesn’t mean that cultural appropriation isn’t a viable issue. Until the people whose cultures are being appropriated by people who don’t belong to those ethnic groups, whose…

Consider this your call-in. Recently, I issued a call for my white friends to really examine our white identities, confront fragility, and help disrupt systemic racism. But the question remained, how do we go about smashing our fragility? To delve into the answer, let’s be thoughtful about what this entails…

A letter to white people, from a white person, on white fragility and mustering the courage to overcome it. Before I begin, let me say I am not writing this to police other white allies and anti-racists. My purpose in writing this series is to create dialogue around the white…

Our feelings can bring us together — if we understand them. — Most of us involved are aware that social justice work is emotionally-intensive. I’ve written at length about the importance of acknowledging this emotional edge and taking steps to address it in our personal and organizational practices. …

There are problems in rural America that need addressing. I can name a few: white supremacy, crippling poverty, Evangelical fervor, and Trumpism. The 2016 election round made all of these issues painfully clear, and they continue to affect U.S. politics on a national and global scale. Rural America’s issues are…