Join us on June 20th, 2025!

Join Project LETS and community herbalists/folks with lived experience — who will be discussing the intersections of Madness, disability, and herbal medicine through a lens of liberation, kinship, and ancestral reclamation. 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.

Panelists:

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Balm in Gilead)

Nicole Rose (Solidarity Apothecary)

Atava Garcia Swiecicki (Ancestral Apothecary)

Simone Sobers

Myrna (Flor y Machete)


What to Expect:

  • Discussions on how to build relationships with herbal allies for emotional, spiritual, and physical support

  • Practical insights into working with herbs while navigating medications and other treatment modalities

  • Stories of resistance, healing, and reconnection from community herbalists and practitioners

  • A deep honoring of ancestral traditions, cultural survival, and collective care


This panel is a fundraiser for serenus herbs & moonpence farm, and 50% of all proceeds will go towards sustaining their farm. The panel is also an introduction to an upcoming course/series for Project LETS titled “Madness, Disability, and Herbalism: Plant Magic and Allies for Reclaiming Ancestral Healing.” We are excited to share deeper, more intentional space with those who attend! The course will be featuring some of our panelists as guest educators.


DONATION INFORMATION:

  • Our suggested donation for community members is: $20-$40

  • Our suggested donation for mental health workers is: $30-$50

  • You can choose how much to donate. It can be more or less than the suggested amount.

  • Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. If you cannot donate to access this event, use our Free Access form.


ACCESS INFORMATION:

  • A recording will be made available.

  • ASL interpretation will be available.

  • You can share additional access needs via your registration form or by emailing support@projectlets.org