Mexican Kitchen Medicine
Mexican Kitchen Medicine will cover a range of traditional plant uses for physical, spiritual, and relational wellbeing. Highlighting plants that are native to the Americas including Epazote, Nopal, Copal, Estafiate, and Cayenne, we will journey through culinary, medicinal, and ceremonial ways to work with the pantheon of medicinal beings that have evolved in community with the people of this land.
We will ground the class in the intricacies of this medicine as it relates to the history of conquest in Mexico and our present colonial realities, and interrogate myths of Latinidad and Mexican nationalism, centering the Indigenous African, Caribbean, and American lineages that are integral to the rich fabric of Herbal and Traditional Medicine practices in Mexico.
This class has been formed in loving relationship and engagement with my elders, ancestors, plant teachers, and initiated Curanderismo practitioners who have been stewards of our medicine traditions. I'm so excited to offer it to the PMS community<3
Daniela Rivero…
(they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, community educator, and traditional medicine practitioner originating from Mexihcah and Nipmuc land. Their work offers tools, language, frameworks, and teachings for restoring belonging with the land by fostering internal and collective ecologies of liberation. They are guided by their lineage —ancestors and descendants— as a participant in the transformation and creation involved in healing from colonialism and replanting future possibilities by recovering our histories and shaping the conditions of the present.
A Virtual Event Series
Tuesday August 12th 7-9 PM EST
*Please note that these events are for PMS students (enrolled or alumni), and other PMS guest facilitators ONLY!