xóchicoatl bello (they/she/amor) is an indigequeer cultural worker, educator, and elder-in-training. They focus on cultivating cultures of healing by restoring our connections to the sacredness of self, each other, earth, and ancestor through ceremony, circle practice, indigenous technologies & agricultural traditions. They have co-created healing spaces over the last decade in Boston Public Schools, community gardens, in the Hudson Valley with Kite’s Nest and Sweet Freedom Farm, and across Turtle Island through their distance herbal & healing programming explicitly for queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, people of color through La Mala Yerba. Their work invites community into herbal medicine making, farming, ceremony, and circle. xóchicoatl believes that these indigenous technologies keep our people healing for generations, and how we find our way back from the violences of colonization and transform the wounds of oppression into more healthy, harmonious, and justice-filled relations with self, community, and the Earth. They hold healing spaces in relationship with the Earth with the prayer that when we heal the soils that sustain us, tend to the seeds, tend to our hearts, and tend to our relations, we remember our bodies as sites of wisdom, we heal our souls, and awaken the freedom we were born with.
weave with them on at lamalayerba.com or on IG @lamalayerbalove