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Moon Juice

Maintenance Phase

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Irveta

Amanda chantal bacon is borrowing ingredients from centuries old traditions of irveta and herbalism. She's just personally profiting, as a white woman, from sort of cherry picking parts of eastern medicinn to sell at really high prices raleng in very concrete terms. The people who are part of that conversation about lik is this or is this not legitate, are overwhelmingly white people. It becomes a way for one white person to invoke race and freak out the other white person. And it also erases contemporary chinese medicine ritye sort of, again, like taking ownership away from the communities that are still practising this.

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