Home + the World

Mary Plantwalker is a wisdom-keeper and culture-maker in the heart of Southern Appalachia. Reading her reflections and recipes from her vast knowledge of medicinal plants helps to expand my relationship to the earth and keep me connected to the seasons.

- Jodi Rhoden

Janine de Novais writes vivid and poetic personal reflection on grief, love, culture, and family, with a keen clarity of vision towards liberation.

- Jodi Rhoden

April is a culinary whiz kid if I've ever met one! Each post is chock full of practical wisdom and kitchen witchery, rooted in humble histories and homemade love and care.

- Jodi Rhoden

Sarahbeth shares potent reflections on life at the intersection of handmade and hard-won: she is a badass mama, an exquisite sewist and teacher, and a paragon of Southern-queer-rural style and power.

- Jodi Rhoden

Kelly writes authentically and truthfully from a life lived with the land. I learn so much from everything she writes, but mostly I want to be part of the community that supports her way of being in the world.

- Jodi Rhoden

Ayesha Khan synthesizes science, culture, community, and liberation into a powerfully orienting resource of information and reflection.

- Jodi Rhoden

Keia generously shares her incandescent light in these pages: the beauty and the struggle of building and nurturing a bakery, a farm, and a life, in love and community.

- Jodi Rhoden

Rebecca's writing helps to clarify the emergent discourse in our field (mental health) through the lens of liberation.

- Jodi Rhoden

Clementine is an incisive and wide-ranging thinker, writing with integrity, insight, and purpose.

- Jodi Rhoden

Fariha's is a rare voice of clarity, honesty, beauty, and full-spectrum humanity.

- Jodi Rhoden