This page shares many of the resources referenced or mentioned in the Herbalism and State Violence book. I have tried to organise it by the different parts of the book while trying not to repeat previously mentioned resources.
Solidarity Apothecary Resources
Courses
- Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course – https://solidarityapothecary.org/herbalismandptsdcourse/
- Making Herbal Medicine with Glycerine Course – https://solidarityapothecary.org/courses/glycerine/
- Practical Medicine Making Intensive – https://solidarityapothecary.org/practical-medicine-making-intensive-2024/
Free Workshops
- Herbalism & State Violence Workshop – https://solidarityapothecary.org/product/herbalism-state-violence/
- State Repression, Trauma and the Body Webinar – https://solidarityapothecary.org/product/state-repression-webinar/
- Herbalism, Incarceration and Abolition Workshop – https://solidarityapothecary.org/product/herbalism-incarceration-abolition-workshop/
Books
- The Prisoner’s Herbal – https://solidarityapothecary.org/prisonersherbal/
- Overcoming Burnout – https://solidarityapothecary.org/overcomingburnout/
- The Medicinal Herb Colouring Book – https://solidarityapothecary.org/colouringbook/
Other Links
- The Frontline Herbalism Podcast – https://solidarityapothecary.org/podcast/
- 1:1 Clinic – https://clinic.solidarityapothecary.org/
- Herbal Solidarity Care Packages – https://solidarityapothecary.org/herbal-solidarity2/
- Request a copy of the Prisoner’s Herbal – https://solidarityapothecary.org/prisonersherbalrequest/
- Make a donation or become a monthly supporter – https://solidarityapothecary.org/support/
- Join the Solidarity Apothecary Newsletter – https://mailtrain.solidarityapothecary.org/subscription/gJSQATljq
Part 1 – State Violence & the Body
Books mentioned
- Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
- Botanical Safety Handbook by the American Herbal Products Association
- The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State by Eric Laursen
- The State: Its Historic Role by Peter Kropotkin
- Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America by Nadia Abu El Haj
- Margins and Murmurations by Kes Otter Lieffe
- Warp and Weft by Lisa Fannen
People and Projects mentioned
- Amani Omejer, illustrations throughout the book as found in the Medicinal Herb Colouring Book
- Eshe Kiama Zuri – https://eshekiamazuri.com/
- Saidiya Hartman – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saidiya_Hartman
- Healing Justice London – https://healingjusticeldn.org/
- Disabled People Against Cuts – https://dpac.uk.net/
- John Keyes, herbalist – https://www.hearthsidehealing.com/
- La Alkimila – http://alkimila.com/
- Irene, illustrator – https://www.irenelasivita.com.ar/
Articles and other links referenced
- https://eshekiamazuri.com/sceeouk
- 5 kinds of nervines podcast – https://solidarityapothecary.org/the-frontline-herbalism-podcast/49-5-kinds-of-nervines/
- https://time.com/6195183/losing-loved-one-heart-risk/
- As the world becomes trauma–informed, work to do by Kathryn A. Becker-Blease – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15299732.2017.1253401
Part 2 – State Repression
Books mentioned
- Nietzsche and Anarchy. Psychology for free spirits, ontology for social war by Shahin
- The Revolution will not be Funded by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
- Defiance: Anarchist Statements Before Judge and Jury by Detritus Books
- Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
People and Projects mentioned
- Bristol Anarchist Black Cross – https://bristolabc.org/
- Herbalista – https://herbalista.org/
- Milas Apothecary – https://milasapothecary.co.uk/
- Stella Maris – @sweetfernstudio13
- Pitchfork Cafe – https://twotreescatering.org/pitchfork-cafe/
Articles and other links referenced
- We’ve Got Your Back: The Story of the J20 Defense. An Epic Tale of Repression and Solidarity – https://crimethinc.com/2019/01/30/weve-got-your-back-the-story-of-the-j20-defense-an-epic-tale-of-repression-and-solidarity
- Prison: The facts – https://prisonreformtrust.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2023/06/prison_the_facts_2023.pdf/
- ‘You can’t bring my boy back’: Why are so many UK prisoners dying on remand? – https:/www.theguardian.com/ society/2022/jul/23/you-cant-bring-my-boy-back-why-are-so-many-uk-prisoners-dying-on-remand/
- https://www.hearthsidehealing.com/articles/trauma-the-gut-and-healing-building-deep-resiliency/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_childhood_experiences#Adverse_childhood_experiences_study/
- https://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-microbiome/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-shot-against-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/
- https://time.com/3817375/probiotics-depression/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741070/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/srep22474
Part 3 – Police Violence
Books mentioned
- Abolishing State Violence by Ray Acheson
People and Projects mentioned
- Generation Five – https://transformharm.org/tj_resource/addressing-trauma-generation-5/
- Boston Area Liberation Medics – https://bostoncoop.net/~balm/
- Medicine For All Seeking Health and Healing – https://www.mashhclinic.com/
- Dixie Pauline, Grassroots Apothecary – https://grassrootsapothecary.org/
- Greta de la Montagne, Gentle Strength Botanicals – http://www.gentlestrengthbotanicals.com/
- Jocelyn Laurel Peña – Paramedic
- Dana Aronson, Wild Kin Botanicals – https://www.wildkinbotanicals.com/
- Ingrid Bauer, MD – https://fiveflavorsherbs.com/
- Stop HS2 – https://stophs2.org/
- HS2 Rebellion – https://www.hs2rebellion.earth/
- Hunt Saboteurs Association – https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/
- Stop the Cull – https://www.facebook.com/stop.the.cull.2019/
- bones tan jones – https://bonestanjones.world/
- Orlando Grief Care Project – https://www.holisticlivingschool.org/orlando-grief-care-project/
- Alexis J. Cunningfolk – https://www.wortsandcunning.com/
Articles and other links referenced
- Herbal First Aid Aftercare for All Who Have Experience Police Violence – https://www.wildkinbotanicals.com/ebooks/p/3u2ild8i3q1kxiunvnovs5t8lmyzkw
- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-much-hs2-cost-so-far-ckdnf2mpv
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-66091279
Part 4 – Prison
Books mentioned
- Unruly Women: The politics of confinement and resistance by Karlene Faith
- The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
- Brick by brick: How we build a world without prisons by Cradle Community
- Struggle within: Prisons, political prisoners, and mass movements in the United States by Dan Berger
- The Prisoner’s Herbal by Nicole Rose
- After Prison Zine – https://www.scribd.com/document/319430855/After-Prison-Zine
- On The Out Zine – https://bristolabc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/on-the-out-zine.pdf
- Prisoner Writings on Prison Abolition – https://bristolabc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Prisoner-Voices-FINAL.pdf
- Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman, Nick Montgomery
- Never Alone – A zine about supporting prisoners by those on the outside – https://bristolabc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Never-Alone-Final.pdf
- Medicinal plants in folk tradition: an ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland by David Elliston Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield
- The Herbal Kitchen by Kami McBride
- The Grief Recovery Workbook by John W James and Russell Friedman
People and Projects mentioned
- Critical Resistance – https://criticalresistance.org/
- Sajah Popham, School of Evolutionary Herbalism – https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/
- The Lunar Apothecary Course with Alexis J. Cunningfolk – http://www.wortsandcunning.com/lunar-apothecary
- Elsie harp – https://www.instagram.com/divinabotanica/?hl=en
Articles and other links referenced
- https://corporatewatch.org/trauma-death-and-profits-youth-prisons-in-the-uk
- https://nicic.gov/resources/nic-library/all-library-items/world-prison-population-listeleventh-edition
- https://criticalresistance.org/mission-vision/not-so-common-language/
- https://prisonguide.co.uk/private-prisons-uk/
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/more-than-3600-new-offences-under-labour-918053.html/
- https://itsgoingdown.org/organizing-prisoner-class-interview-iwoc/
- https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/nov/28/offenders-indefinite-jail-sentences-terminated-moj/
- The Lammy review – https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a82009040f0b62305b91f49/lammy-review-final-report.pdf/
- Prison: The facts – https://prisonreformtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/prison_the_facts_2023.pdf/
- https://transformharm.org/ab_resource/brick-by-brick-creating-a-world-without-prisons/
- R.I.P Taylor – Rage is our weapon – https://bristolabc.org/riptaylor/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735821000416
- https://www.traffordsafeguardingpartnership.org.uk/Learning-and-development/Resource-bank/7-Minute-Briefings/7-Minute-Briefing-Coercive-Control.aspx
- https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/incarceration.html
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/mar/covid-19-death-rate-among-people-prison-three-times-higher-public
- https://www.medact.org/2020/blogs/mind-the-gap-healthcare-disparities-in-uk-prisons/
- https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(98)00017-8/fulltext
- https://chronicillnesstraumastudies.com/
- https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/publications-archive/brain/nightmares-brain
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451217/
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04432.x
- https://www.sleepfoundation.org/nightmares/how-to-stop-having-nightmares
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301109360_Stachys_officinalis_wood_betony
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313439/
- http://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog/skullcap-plant-profile/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11896/
- https://solidarityapothecary.org/overcoming-burnout-part-7-composting-grief/
- https://napiers.net/blogs/news/the-surprising-superpowers-of-nettle-seed
- https://www.gaiaherbs.com/blogs/seeds-of-knowledge/amazing-benefits-of-ashwagandha
- https://youth.gov/federal-links/child-trauma-and-its-effects-implications-police/
Part 5 – Border Violence
Books mentioned
- Violent borders: refugees and the right to move by Reece Jones
- Abolishing State Violence by Ray Acheson
- Against Borders: towards a politics of border abolition by Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha
- The UK Border Regime: a critical guide by Corporate Watch
People and Projects mentioned
- No Borders Team Poland – https://nobordersteam.noblogs.org/
- Migrants Rights Network – https://migrantsrights.org.uk/
- Calais Migrant Solidarity – https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
- Patients Not Passports – https://www.patientsnotpassports.co.uk/
- Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais – https://mobileherbalclinic.org/
- Victor Paes, East End Herbalist – https://www.eastendherbalist.com/
- First Aid Support Team, Calais – https://www.f-a-s-t.eu/
- No Borders Medics – https://nobordermedics.org/en/start-english/
- Planta Medica – https://www.plantamedica.co.uk/
- Bristol Herbalists Without Borders – https://bristolhwb.org/
- Refugee Community Kitchen – https://refugeecommunitykitchen.org/
- Calais Food Collective – https://calaisfood.wixsite.com/home
Articles and other links referenced
- https://migrantsrights.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/pdf-1.pdf
- https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/wordsmatter/illegal-immigration/
- https://corporatewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Major-Migration-Routes-copy.jpg
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/16/at-least-61-migrants-drown-after-shipwreck-off-libya-iom/
- https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean
- https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/introduction-to-calais/
- https://subjectguides.library.american.edu/c.php?g=1025915&p=7749761
- http://www.utopia56.com/en/actualite/lettre-ouverte-communaute-erythreenne-jungle-calais/
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/us-governments-database-immigrant-dna-has-hit-scary-astronomical-proportions/
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/10/the-nauru-files-2000-leaked-reports-reveal-scale-of-abuse-of-children-in-australian-offshore-detention
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/deportation-statistics
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/08/legionella-found-onboard-the-bibby-stockholm-is-most-deadly-strain/
- https://www.patientsnotpassports.co.uk/learn/
- Mobile Herbal Clinic Calais Interview on the Frontline Herbalism Podcast – https://solidarityapothecary.org/the-frontline-herbalism-podcast/40-msdn-10-mobile-herbal-clinic-for-refugees-in-calais-and-dunkirk/
- Tekmil: A Tool For Collective Reflection by Tekoşîna Anarşîst – https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tekosina-anarsist-tekmil-a-tool-for-collective-reflection
- https://www.amnesty.ie/end-direct-provision/
- https://wonderground.press/botanica/battlefield-botanicals-plant-use-war/
- https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/poisons-plants-and-palaeolithic-hunters
- https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opinion/medicinal-plants-britains-home-grown-wartime-allies
- https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bshp/ph/2022/00000052/00000003/art00001
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309670/
- https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/medicinal-herbs-in-times-of-low-intensity-war/
- https://mesopotamia.coop/sifa-jin-we-want-to-defend-the-health-of-society/
- https://solidarityapothecary.org/solidarity-with-palestine-what-can-you-do/
- https://sites.google.com/view/learnforartsakh/library
Part 6 – Genocide, Occupation & War
Books mentioned
- Britain’s green allies: medicinal plants in wartime by Peter Ayres
People and Projects mentioned
- Solidarity Collectives – https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/main-page-english/
- Ukraine Herbal Solidarity – https://ukraineherbalsolidarity.squarespace.com/
- Insight NGO – https://www.insight-ukraine.org/en/
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief – https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
- Radical Aid Force – https://linktr.ee/radicalaidforce
- Good Night Imperial Pride – https://gnip.blackblogs.org/
- Bristol Defendant Solidarity – https://twitter.com/BristolDefenda1/
- Bristol Anarchist Black Cross – https://bristolabc.org/
- Zaytoun – https://zaytoun.uk/
- Palig – https://www.armmad.com/
Articles and other links referenced
- https://wonderground.press/botanica/battlefield-botanicals-plant-use-war/
- https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/poisons-plants-and-palaeolithic-hunters
- https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opinion/medicinal-plants-britains-home-grown-wartime-allies
- https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bshp/ph/2022/00000052/00000003/art00001
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309670/
- https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/medicinal-herbs-in-times-of-low-intensity-war/
- https://mesopotamia.coop/sifa-jin-we-want-to-defend-the-health-of-society/
- https://solidarityapothecary.org/solidarity-with-palestine-what-can-you-do/
- https://sites.google.com/view/learnforartsakh/library
Part 7 – Plant Allies
Books mentioned
- Wild Drugs by Zoe Hawes
- Plants and Habitats: an introduction to common plants and their habitats in Britain and Ireland by Ben Averis
- Herbal Constituents: Foundations of Phytochemistry Paperback by Lisa Ganora
- Bartram’s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine by Thomas Bartram
- Traditional Western Herbal Medicine by Elisabeth Brooke
People and Projects mentioned
- Alexis J. Cunningfolk – https://www.wortsandcunning.com/
- Judith Berger – http://www.judithbergerherbalist.com/
- David Winston – https://www.davidwinston.org/
- Kami McBride – https://kamimcbride.com/
- Jillian E. Stansbury, ND – https://battlegroundhealingarts.com/dr-jillian-stansbury
- Queer Ecology resources by Kes Otter Lieffe – https://otterlieffe.com/queer-ecology/
Articles and other links referenced