Step 1: Donate to Lebanon Solidarity Collective here (suggested donation $60USD).

Step 2: Register for “Herbalism and the State” here.

Herbal medicine has long been used as a tool for self-determined, culturally-based, liberatory medicine. However, it has also been used for colonial and imperial gain. This workshop will explore the ways that fascist governments and people employ herbal medicine for public relations while committing atrocities.

Participants will have the opportunity to critically reflect on their lineages and connections to medicine to see how they either reinforce systems of domination or strengthen their relationship to land and liberation.

Shabina Lafleur-Gangji is an acupuncturist, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, and community herbalist living on occupied Dish With Many Spoons treaty land. Her work is rooted in the principles of self-determination and liberation. She tends to a half-acre medicine garden and is the co-director of Seed Soil Spirit, a grassroots Herb school run by and primarily for Black, Indigenous and other racialized people working to uplift traditional plant knowledge.