"No, these were women of power." - KINITRA BROOKS, Sinners Gives Hoodoo Its Due, Imaginary Worlds #ImaginaryWorlds #InternationalWomensDay #KinitraBrooks
In this essay, Kinitra Brooks seeks connection with her late great-grandmother, Mama Myrt, and reflects on the meaning and beauty of embodied ways of knowing.
Read “Myrtle’s Medicine,” by Kinitra Brooks. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/myrtles-medicine/ Illustration by John Jennings. #rootworking #KinitraBrooks #JohnJennings
Myrtle's Medicine – Kinitra Brooks

Kinitra Brooks reflects on rootworking traditions, cosmologies of Black women, and embodied ways of knowing. Illustrations by John Jennings.

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