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• Amani Omejer, Nicole Rose The Medicinal Herb Colouring Book 50 beautiful illustrations of common plants and descriptions of their medicinal properties. Book details: Publisher: Solidarity Apothecary Published: 2020 Format: A4 thin-spined paperback Pages: 58 Subject: Colouring Book, Health Creators: Nicole Rose, Brunem Warshaw, Amani Omejer Whatever your age and whatever your experience with herbal medicine, this book offers you a stunning collection of 50 illustrations to lose yourself in. Every illustration is accompanied by descriptions of the medicinal properties of each plant.  From Betony to Yarrow, these plants are all around us. This book offers you a chance to expand your knowledge of common plants, whilst also providing accurate illustrations that should help you to identify the plants in the wild.  Funds raised from this book will be split between two projects. Half will go towards sending copies of the colouring book and The Prisoner’s Herbal book to prisoners around the world. Half will be donated to a fund for Amani’s health treatments. This book has been created by three femmes with differing invisible illnesses. Illustrations by Amani Omejer – www.amani-omejer.squarespace.com | @amani_writes Text by Nicole Rose – www.solidarityapothecary.org | @solidarity.apothecary Clinically Edited by Brunem Warshaw – www.welldeepremedies.com | @welldeepremedies €13.95
• Nicole Rose Herbalism and State Violence. Practical Herbal Medicine for Surviving State Repressione State violence is a brutal reality for vast numbers of people. It is an experience that is racialised, classed and gendered in its design and application. It intersects with nearly all forms of oppression. Plant medicines can be a tool for solidarity and resistance; they can practically support us to survive and they can help us recover from trauma. From herbal care for handcuff injuries to healing from incarceration, this book looks at examples from around the world of herbal solidarity in practice. Writing from her lived experience of incarceration, political organising and of running the Solidarity Apothecary, Nicole Rose explores some of the many connections between herbalism and struggles for liberation. Through recipes, remedies and stories from the herbal frontlines, she invites us to connect with our allies in struggle – the plants – to rest, to heal and to continue the fight. Sold Out
• Various Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid From the cooks who have fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after ecological disasters, food has long played a crucial role in resistance, protest, and mutual aid. Nourishing Resistance centers these everyday acts of culinary solidarity. Twenty-three contributors—cooks, farmers, writers, organizers, academics, and dreamers—write on queer potlucks, rebel ancestors, disability justice, Indigenous food sovereignty, and the fight against toxic diet culture, among many other topics. They recount bowls of biryani at a Delhi protest, fricasé de conejo on a Puerto Rican farm, and pay-as-you-want dishes in a collectively run Hong Kong restaurant. They chronicle the food distribution programs that emerged in Buenos Aires and New York City in the wake of COVID-19. They look to the past, revealing how women rice workers composed the song “Bella Ciao,” and the future, speculating on postcapitalist worlds that include both high-tech collective farms and herbs gathered beside highways. Through essays, articles, poems, and stories, Nourishing Resistance argues that food is a central, intrinsic part of global struggles for autonomy and collective liberation. €17.95
• Nicole Rose The Prisoner’s Herbal Prisoners commonly experience medical neglect and a dehumanising separation from wild places. However, weeds come up through the concrete cracks, The Prisoner’s Herbal contains detailed profiles of ten plants, as well as tips and tricks for making the most out of foods, spices, and condiments available. Written by an ex-prisoner after her experiences of using medicinal plants in prison, The Prisoner’s Herbal will inspire people inside and out. This book has been put together to create a resource for prisoners who would like to learn more about plants growing in prison courtyards, while also being a generally accessible and practical guide to herbs. It will be distributed to prisoners around the world via supportive individuals and solidarity projects. It contains detailed descriptions of plants, their medicinal and edible uses, how to use them and what health challenges they can support. There is also a section on how to use items that can be bought on canteen for health uses, such as salt, pepper, chilli powder and more. €13.95