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Fat Crush: Autumn Brown on Resilience, Healing, and Social Justice
Autumn deeply supports movements for social justice and healing as a co-owner of AORTA, a worker-owned cooperative of facilitators and movement strategists. Autumn is a singer/songwriter and an author of speculative fiction. Her writing has been featured in Lightspeed Magazine, the Procyon Science Fiction Anthology, Octavia’s Brood, and Revolutionary Mothering.
Learn more about Autumn and her work at her recently relaunched website, www.iambrown.org, and follow her journey on instagram @autumnmeghanbrown.
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Fat Crush: Erica Fargione
Rachel met Erica Fargione at the Midwest Women's Herbal Symposium and immediately knew we wanted to introduce her to our community. Erica is a botanist, herbal educator, and community organizer.
Olfactory Observations: Fragrance
‘Fragrance usually isn't a single ingredient. It's an umbrella term that can represent a blend of many aromatic compounds. Many toxic, petroleum-derived ingredients get to lie in the shadows of ‘fragrance’, hiding under the guise of “proprietary blends”.
Resist what Persists: Silicone
We don't formulate with dimethicone or synthetic texture-building polymers because we're not trying to make botanicals behave like conventional skincare.
Self (Care)-Preservation: Preservatives in Perspective
We make our potions in regular, monthly cycles (not once a year) and size them according to their best use well within the time frame of their shelf life.
Fat Crush: Meghan Henshaw and Julia Orquera Bianco
This month we’re crushing HARD on Meghan Henshaw and Julia Orquera Bianco, and their newly released, limited-edition herbal zine, Flora’s Daughters: Seven Plants Through the Lens of Eclectic Medicine, Contemporary Herbalism, and Botanical Illustration.
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