Textiles and bandages aren't the only gifts that cotton offers. The root of the cotton plant has long been treasured for its medicinal properties, especially for womb health. In these times where politicians seek to disrupt our rights to bodily autonomy we are proud to be reclaiming our relationships with plants and soil to provide ourselves with the care and support we need, independent of the medical industrial complex. This tincture was produced with cotton grown here Detroit under the guidance of a local herbalist

Below is a poem from Nikky Finney highlighting the ways enslaved Black Women used their relationships with plants as a form of resistance