Faculty of Design
Illustration
Emily Dakin
My Body My Choice
Illustration
2021
A woman bathes in abortifacient herbs, a metamorphosis begins to take place in the body. For centuries, women have turned to herbalism as a way of gaining reproductive autonomy. Herbs commonly used in this practice include pennyroyal, Margiricarpus pinnatus, and oregano, which would be added to a bath or ingested.
Work by
Emily Dakin aka. Emildee
Illustration
“History points to women as being the proprietors of herbal knowledge and the first ones to document and categorize herbs by their medicinal and toxic qualities. This ancestral knowledge lives on...” [More]