Earth Doula Book Party with Queen Hollins

🌿 Join us for the Earth Doula Book Party with Queen Hollins

🍂 Autumn Equinox at Temple of Earth Apothecary

Sunday, September 22, 2-5 pm

536 Grand Avenue, Oakland

🌍 “This is not just a book. It is a door. Queen Hollins is showing us how to return lovingly to our oldest and most important relationship: our relationship with Earth as Earth. In book form, Queen makes decades of teaching and practice accessible to the world. Which means that you are holding the key to a vibration and a calling that has already changed the lives of multitudes, myself included. You are holding the key, open your heart and move through the door!”
—Alexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

🌺 Earth Doula holds Black Indigenous healing modalities, rituals, and ecosystem stewardship practices. With vivid illustrations for all ages to enjoy, Queen guides us through the rites, rituals, and offerings that bring humans back into balance with our planet, healing generations forward and back.
When Queen was a child in the south holding anger, her grandmother Naomi Hollins would make her dig a hole and get in it so that the Earth could “clean her off.” Grandma Naomi Hollins was a southern Black medicine woman who used ecology and herbal remedies to heal her surrounding community at a time when they were shunned by segregated health institutions.

These Southern Black/African American indigenous practices were passed on to Queen who continues aiding hurting communities in healing their trauma by connecting them to the Earth. Queen is the Founder and Cultural Director of and recipient of the 2024 Harvey Milk Award.

Join us on Autumn Equinox to celebrate Queen's legacy! Pre-order your book with this ticket for pick-up at the event! Queen will be signing books from 4-5 pm.

About the organizers:

is a Black-led herb shop, multi-generational freedom school and community healing space, selling locally grown bulk herbs, house-made herbal preparations and ritual goods.

is home for written and artistic works by Earth stewards, teachers, and medicine keepers to inspire connection to self, community, and the planet. Thank you to everyone who has made our first print publication in collaboration with @earthlodgecenter possible!

Earth Doula was environmentally printed on Ohlone Lands at GreenerPrinter, June 2024.

Host or Publisher School for the Ecocene