Art by Karina Álvarez
Queering Psychedelics is part of Chacruna’s ongoing work to uplift queer, trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive voices within psychedelic healing, spirituality, and liberation. This page gathers key resources from Chacruna’s Queering Psychedelics ecosystem, including conference materials, a past course, a featured lecture, a community forum, a book, and selected Chronicles exploring identity, survival, transformation, and queer community in psychedelic spaces.
Learning Resources
Community Forum
Psychedelics and Queer Spirituality
This Community Forum explores the relationship between queer experience, spirituality, and psychedelic practice.
Chronicles
You can also explore our broader queer Chronicles, which feature stories, analysis, and reflections on broader sexual and gender diversity topics in the context of sacred plants, psychedelics, and social justice. Find more relevant articles here.
Past Course: Queering Psychedelics: Intersectionality, Healing, Spirituality and Liberation
Although this course is not being offered this year, its page remains an important resource for understanding the scope of Chacruna’s educational work on queer issues in psychedelic medicine and culture.
Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine
This anthology brings together diverse voices reflecting on queer identity, oppression, healing, and liberation in psychedelic medicine.
Read the introduction
Read the introduction to the anthology, which lays out the broader vision of queering the psychedelic future and building more inclusive frameworks for healing and transformation.
Conference & Campaign Resources
Press Release: Queering Psychedelics
Read the original press release for Chacruna’s groundbreaking Queering Psychedelics conference (recordings available), which introduced this conversation as a necessary intervention in the psychedelic field.
Queering Psychedelics II
Explore the promotional page for the second edition of Queering Psychedelics, highlighting queer visionaries in the psychedelic community and examining psychedelics through queer and non-binary perspectives.
Art by Karina Álvarez.
