03/09/2026
Happy Woman's History Month and International Women's Day (yesterday, 3/8)
(Had to repost because it was pointed out that we mislabeled Maria Sabina, and we didn't want that incorrect label to circulate so we fixed the slide.)
We put together a short slide showcasing a few wise women in herbalism. This is by no means an exhaustive list, nor can a few sentences capture the extraordinary lives these women lived. We encourage y'all to look further into their stories and the legacies they left behind.
We also want to acknowledge the women medicine keepers, healers, midwifes, and those who walked between worlds. Whose names were erased, but their deeds reverberate into the present.
To the mom's, aunties, grandma's, sisters, witches, and "crazy" folxs of the woods. Whose families and communities turned to in their hour of need, but their selfless service was only seen as a part of life.
Their names are no longer spoken, but their knowledge passed on through generations is very much alive.
To those who have been burned, enslaved, m*rdered, and assulted for that knowledge.
To the healers whose wisdom was dismissed as "primitive" and "barbaric." But whose work was later stolen and rebranded as someone else's.
To countless acts of service by women through millennia, that has allowed the human race to survive.
We remember you!
And to the medicine keepers yet to come, we welcome you!
