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Queer Herbal Medicine: Blind Tea Tasting

The Common press
118 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6DG (view map)

Sunday 2nd November 2025 at 7:00 PM

Accessibility - Accessible Toilets, Complimentary Ticket for Assistant, Step Free Access, Wheelchair Accessible

Pay What You Can to £10

Queer Herbal Medicine: Blind Tea Tasting

Name: Queer Herbal Medicine: Blind Tea Tasting
Start: 2025-11-02T19:00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-02T21:00:00:00+00:00
Location: The Common press

Herbs and queer people have loved and supported each other throughout history, and this legacy carries on today.

Join us for an evening of exploring medicinal plants through sharing, blind tea tasting and making Fire Cider. This evening’s session will look at using anti-microbial and immuno-modulating plants to support us into the colder months. We will explore how herbs work together and what they can teach us about support systems.

All sessions bring links between queerness and herbs through:

Literature and historical records.
The queerness of botany and interacting with nature as self-exploration.
Queer health and herbal medicine in current times.

This session will involve:

Meeting a plant by drinking its tea blindly. Everyone will be guided to explore the effects the herb has on them, including through writing and drawing. We'll then share these experiences together to see how the plant works on our bodies and minds, and how it compares to traditional uses and current biomedical understanding.
Making fire cider using aromatic and kitchen herbs.

Please bring: a very small jar and your favourite kitchen herb or spice.

Host

Odhran (they/them) is a trans medical herbalist living between London and France. Their practice involves the practical application of herbalism within local communities, researching herbal trans health, and the curiosity of seeing the world from non-human perspectives.

They encourage the exploration of individuals’ subjective perspectives by involving all the senses, and by playing with the stories we learn and tell ourselves to make sense of the world.

@mordicaherbs

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