Episode 27 | Coochie, Culture & Colonialism: Jasmine Duke Remixes the Alchemy of Herbal Women’s Wellness

Jazmin Duke enters this conversation like a wellness renegade dismantling everything we thought we knew about our bodies, our cravings and the colonial food systems that dictate them. She traces her journey from a painful menstrual cycle to a plant-powered lifestyle rooted in ancestral science, exposing the violent parallels between animal agriculture and slavery and asking a searing question: If our ancestors turned scraps into soul food under captivity, why are we still eating what they were forced to eat - now that we have the freedom and knowledge to evolve? As a longtime vegan, Jazmin breaks down the genius of Black herbal lineage, menstrual sovereignty and the radical truth that women’s wellness is not new, it really is memory. And she does it with unapologetic cultural flair that’s reminding us that Black women have always been the blueprint, always been the botanists, and always been the ones remixing survival into brilliance.But Jazmin doesn’t just remember, she is unapologetically building. In a landscape where the women’s wellness industry is overwhelmingly white and clinically sterile, she conjures Kitty Coo - a luxury women’s wellness brand that refuses to flatten femininity into beige minimalism. Her products feel like ancestral alchemy dipped in neon: vibrant packaging, playful design and her girly-girl aesthetic that is as scientific as it is spiritual, as joyful as it is rebellious. From okra’s hidden legacy as an ancestral aphrodisiac to the microbiome as a blueprint of liberation, Jazmin reveals how pleasure, period health and sexual literacy are political acts and why Black women cannot be erased from an industry they created. This is most certainly a cute conversation about self-care but it’s also a reclamation of knowledge, power and divine intelligence that feels like someone finally turned the lights back on.https://kittycoowellness.com/Compost, Cotton & Cornrows: the space where Black & Afro-Indigenous Vanguards are redefining sustainability through storytelling!@Compost_Cotton_Cornrows