laurel birch

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Grateful to mycelial networks for reminding us of our shared power. For their service to soil health, forest ecology, plants & us. Where would we even be without these potent edge dwellers?

Takes a whole day of stove work to finish this slow medicine. Warming, comforting & grounding to access safe embodiment, tend to grief or just get a good night’s sleep. Seriously delicious too. Sweetened with cinnamon, local raw honey & vanilla bean to make your tastebuds sing.

Anber glass dropper bottle labeled Ms. Tea Fairy Ring Mushroom Elixir with an illustrated circle of colorful mushrooms, moons and stars around a fan-shaped pink Mimosa flower with fine, delicate hairs.

Laurel, a white queer, holds in her hand a piece of striped turkey tail polypore in varying shades of brown, tan, sepia, sand. Below, a woven basket rests on the ground, filled with many sections of a winter harvest of turkey tail.

Fairy Ring Elixir 🍄🧚‍♀️ This fave is back! Triple extract mushy adaptogen blend to deepen earth connection, joy, awe & aliveness. Support digestion, deep immunity & lift the heart. Locally sourced fungi, roots + mimosa flower to find softness in hard times.

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Ms. Tea Queer supported herbs for collective care and liberation. Small batch made in California with love, magic and solidarity. Sliding scale consults, herbal care packages and wholesale.

excited to share the new ms. tea website! art + plants go hand in hand here and all design is done in house. stoked for the resources page and the pay it forward fund. all integral to my work, so glad to have them reflected more. i’ll be launching some new consultations soon so stay tuned.

The trans experience of keeping each other alive while cis saviors profit from our mere mention.

We have enough validity right now, but what cis folks CAN actually do:
- Contribute to GFMs for trans care and travel (we are a very impoverished demographic!)
- Help a trans person get a job
- Help a trans person move
- Vocally oppose anti-trans legislation (yell at reps, not random bigots online!

This week’s acquisitions include:

Trans Care by @hilmalatino.bsky.social
Histories of the Trans Child, Jules Gill-Peterson
Stag Dance by @torreypeters.bsky.social

When this hit my inbox I was so pumped!!!! I love @msteabotanica.bsky.social 's herbal medicines and I love supporting trans people!

Made from our bones Building collective power when everything falls apart

My first post at Resonant Body is a love letter to trans siblings, queer ancestors & call for allies to step up in community defense. It’s gonna take all of us meeting at the intersections of shared struggle, centering the most vulnerable. Write to trans inmates, put yr 😷 on, offer material support.

"We can still do what we've always done — take care of each other, break rules, and help people get what they need to survive…This is a time for sustained care for one another, careful rule-breaking, and disobedience in the face of illegitimate authority."

the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights.

they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones

Sent a grip of herb donations, teas, masks, lung elixirs, nervines & salves to LA homies affected by fires. This was a few weeks back, but will continue to share long haul herbal support with mutual aid networks as I’m able. #herbalism #fireseason

#queerherbalist #radicalherbalist

transition has been mostly DIY and community-organized since forever. when you're ready, figure out what you can offer and what you need. talk in real life, use signal, get creative, don't get caught. they can't break us in a way that matters!!!! I love you.

added you! ✅

@botanicalhikes.bsky.social 💋

Last day for public comment, it takes about 1 min. Confirming these two grifters would be a disaster for public health.

I know it’s a bit clunky! We have to follow each other in order to DM, but this works too. I’ll add ya!

I started Ms. Tea 10 years ago, a creative plant practice. I make medicine & herbal goods sold in small shops & online. My boo is a botanist & we grow native plants. I don’t support wildcrafting. I’m committed to embodied liberation, eco-belonging & mutual care between plants & their communities.

I’m clinically trained & offer sliding scale, trans-affirming, trauma aware care. Herbalism is political & healing is collective. I work within tenets of anti-oppression, abolition & disability justice, practice covid competence & recognize state abandonment & racism as social health determinants.

Intro time! Laurel (they/she). Transfem herbalist, gardener, art director, medicine maker, flower listener, plant tender. White settler on unceded Coast Miwok land. Been practicing herbalism for 12 years, art & design for most of my life. Currently bffs w/ two chipoo rescue pups, Chili & Maple.

Grateful to be in community with rad plant babes over the years. Excited to enter this new digital space with care & humility & offer a portal for our communities to tap into plant realms.

We’re still growing & welcoming folks. Feel free to DM me if you’d like to join!

Violet always doing the most in January. In a couple months I’ll harvest leaves for lung teas and lymph massage oils. #herbalism #plantmagic #queerherbalist #violet #bloomscrolling

We’re in scary times, but remember that the trans people immediately at most risk from the executive orders are those who were already being persecuted under Biden—prisoners, immigrants, full service sex workers etc. It’s okay to be afraid but keep your head in the game.

“every day, relinquish and resist exceptionalism and elitism. american exceptionalism is fatal for the whole world. what our nation has instigated, funded and/or allowed to happen anywhere in the world is going to happen to more of us here, we need to be humble about that.“ 👌🏻

@aclu.org is documenting cases of passports being delayed or denied due to the halting of all gender marker changes (mine is one of many). After May, I’ll be unable to fly anywhere for the foreseeable future.

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.

If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

met this cutie 14 years ago on our first date at the beach. then fell in love with the land, plants & wildflowers. celebrating this steadfast love through grief, heartache, joy, endless change. deep connection with plants always at the center. @botanicalhikes