What I’m
Writing
Chautauqua Journal
A longer version of “Wild Tithe” appears in The Chautauqua Journal, an annual journal that embodies a sense of inquiry into questions of personal, social, political, spiritual, and aesthetic importance—and when, where, and how those values and questions intersect.
McSweeney’s
My essay, “Of Plague and Plenty,” was published in McSweeney’s for the “Flattened by the Curve” series, which features the voices of doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, and others on the front lines against COVID-19.
This essay was developed during a free writing and photography workshop offered by Teju Cole to essential workers around the world.
Fly Away Journal
My essay “Wild Tithe” was featured in Fly Away Journal: A Journal of the Environment and art.
By Wendy Johnson, M.D.
Kinship Medicine
Cultivating Interdependence to
Heal the Earth and Ourselves
KINSHIP MEDICINE: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves is based in the premise that our well-being is rooted in relationships and connection–with each other and the natural world. Western medicine sees our bodies as machines to be repaired, but a more apt metaphor would be a garden, we are a part of nature. Your body itself is an ecosystem, existing inside progressively larger ecosystems until we consider the whole earth itself. We cannot be truly healthy when those ecosystems are sick and dying. Our modern way of living in most of the Western World is incompatible with maintaining the healthy ecosystems on which we depend. KINSHIP MEDICINE is aimed at raising awareness of the deep connection between our well being and the health of the natural world.