Feral Crust is a community based autonomous space in the slum area of Taguig, Philippines. Since March 2014 the Feral Crust space is located on Mabato Road Brgy, a squatted public road near cement and other industrial factories. Although by next year we are planning to move on the edges of Davao City aiming to setup a small permaculture land project, an anarchist infoshop and a social center based in the countryside, much closer to nature.

In relation to our land project, we are starting to edit a handbook about natural healing for common illnesses using herbal remedies that are locally grown. Furthermore, we also want to include a bit of political perspective and other vital information related to do-it-yourself healing.

Few of the sources that inspired us to make the handbook are radical and informative publications such as Rina Nissim’s Natural Healing in Gynecology: A Manual For Women, Yeast of your worries: A Yeast Infection Survival Handbook by Erica Zelfand, and Threads: Changes During the Menstrual Cycle; Feminism and Anatomy; Medical Model of Menstruation; Politics of so-called PMS by Lisa. Such important materials are quiet rare to find out here. And we think it is very useful and helpful to publish ourselves one about reclaiming health and well-being, socially and ecologically. We wish to publish a handbook which gives an information that’s relevant to our local context and we need your support for its printing and distribution. If you think you can help us about this matter, please get in touch (contacts below). We would be happy to make friends, to make connection in an intimate and mutual way, hoping to deepen further solidarity across borders. We hope to make the handbook circulate to our friends in the city and countryside, to our family, to our neighbourhood, to autonomous activists and immediate network such as local infoshops and autonomous spaces.