Category: Women

Marlene Dobkin de Rios: A Case for Complex Histories of Women in Psychedelics

Ayahuasca’s place in mestizo and Indigenous Peruvian healing practices featured extensively in Marlene Dobkin de...

“A ‘Dose’ of Radical Christianity”: Psychedelic Therapy with Dr. Florence Nichols

Florence Nichols was a Canadian missionary and pioneer of psychedelic therapy, using LSD to treat...

Ergot in Canada: A Lost Tradition?

In the second half of the 20th century, farmers on the Canadian prairies produced ergot...

Medicinal Abortions in Mexican History: Botanical Knowledge Retained

You might assume that medicinal contraceptives are recent products of modern western science. In fact,...

Abortion, Plants, & Whispered Networks of Botanical Knowledge

Women's whisper networks have always played a major role in the spread of knowledge about...

Redwing Keyssar: Nurse, Midwife to the Dying, Ceremonialist

There is a reason we call it Mother Earth. Nature teaches us. It nurtures. It...

A Historian’s Reflection on Music and Psychedelics

I will never forget the moment music transported me out of my own body.  I...

How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy

Hermina Browne and Helen Bonny are two revolutionary figures in the history of using music...

“Please Write Up Your Work!”: Laura Archera Huxley as a Psychedelic Pioneer

Laura Archera Huxley, author of You Are Not the Target (1963), was a pioneer in...

Another Aspect of Reality: Maria Nys Huxley’s Influence on Psychedelic History

Maria Nys Huxley was an active participant in 20th century psychedelic culture. Though most of...
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