Our ancestors braided seeds, grew freedom gardens, and lived in reciprocity with the earth. Herbalism as Resistance orients our relationship building with our bodies, the land, and our community as an act of resistance against a colonial state. Join me in exploring these rich relationships while highlighting some of the medicines that have supported us through it all!"

Taylor Rae is an herbalist, clay worker, archivist, and storyteller who is passionate about the rekindling of ancestral land and medicine traditions, for both herself and her communities. Taylor Rae earned a B.A in Environmental Science with a research concentration in pollination biology from Northwestern University. Upon graduating, Taylor craved a relationship with the land that cracked open the restrictive parameters set by western academia and offered space for reciprocity, collaboration, land sovereignty, and rematriation. Now, Taylor works to create avenues for the collective rememberings and returns to the land, especially for those who have been historically and systemically barred from doing so. Guided by Black, queer, feminist theory, Taylor's work is rooted in the exploration of who we are outside of the colonial structures that harm us all; and how we create safe, sustainable, and radical care networks that nourish the community we have in people and the planet.

Co-sponsored by Growing Vines, the Miller Worley Center for the Environment and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.