The Psychedelic Justice Initiative of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines is committed to fostering accessibility, diversity, and equity in psychedelic science, practice, and discourse. By uniting efforts to address systemic inequities, this committee centers traditionally marginalized racial, ethnic, and Indigenous communities, women, sexual and gender minorities, and other underrepresented groups in the field of psychedelics.

This committee aims to:

·      Promote Social Justice Values: Center social justice-related principles in all areas of psychedelic studies and practices.

·      Support Marginalized Voices: Advocate for the visibility, inclusion, and leadership of people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals across conferences, events, media, and research.

·      Increase Access and Awareness: Ensure the availability and accessibility of psychedelic plant medicines to diverse communities and raise awareness of their benefits.

·      Honor Indigenous Knowledge: Give visibility to Indigenous legacies and expertise around psychedelic plant medicines.

·      Combat Oppression: Address and dismantle racism, sexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, and other oppressive structures within psychedelic communities and science.

·    Advocate for Inclusive Practices: Collaborate with researchers and providers to design culturally responsive and LGBTQI+ affirmative protocols and advise on best practices in research, policy, and therapy. The Psychedelic Justice Initiative envisions a future where all people—regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation—share a seat at the table and have equitable access to the transformative potential of psychedelics and plant medicines.

Chacruna’s Inclusion, Diversity and Psychedelics Call for Articles

Chacruna’s Inclusion, Diversity and Psychedelics series addresses historic and contemporary challenges to access and inclusion in the psychedelic community, leadership, and research. In this series we explore individual, structural, and sociocultural factors that act as barriers to full inclusion, identify strategies to transform the field, and highlight calls to action for ensuring equity, dismantling oppression, and creating sustained systemic change. The series features research summaries, reflections, and strategies for increasing the inclusion of diverse people at all levels of the psychedelic revolution. The series seeks submission for original articles related to this topic.

For more information, and submissions write at: [email protected]

To read the articles of this series, click here.

Call for Articles: Exploring Power Dynamics and Discrimination

Plant medicines have long been associated with profound healing experiences, yet they also exist within broader societal structures that can perpetuate inequality and marginalization and block access to these therapies.

Chacruna in its mission to educate and ensure access to plant medicines, therefore must also be dedicated to fostering dialogue and understanding around the dynamics of power and discrimination within institutes and individuals. It is important to address power dynamics and discrimination specifically within the psychedelic community. Inspired by the recent Frontiers special issue on power and discrimination, edited by Dr. Monnica Williams and Dr. Sonya Faber, both board members of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, alongside the Director, Dr. Bia Labate, we now invite submissions for short articles that further explore the intersections of power, discrimination, and psychedelics. Join us in continuing this vital conversation and contributing to a more inclusive and equitable society.

Prejudices and biases permeate societies, leading to various forms of discrimination and inequities. From structural racism to gender-based barriers, and from economic oppression to systemic colonization, the misuse and imbalance of power lie at the heart of these issues.

This call seeks to shed light on covert or under-examined aspects of power, exploring its effects on individuals and institutions. We encourage submissions that uncover hidden power structures, examine psychological consequences, and propose mechanisms for positive change.

Topics of interest include:

• •         Exploration of power dynamics within psychedelic therapy sessions and research settings.
  •         Analysis of how societal power structures influence access to psychedelic-assisted therapy and plant medicines.
  •        Examination of the role of privilege and marginalization in psychedelic communities and research.
  •         Investigation into the historical and cultural contexts of power dynamics in indigenous and traditional psychedelic practices.
  •         Exploration of psychedelic experiences as catalysts for personal and collective empowerment or disempowerment.
  •         Discussion on the potential of psychedelic therapy to address and dismantle systemic power imbalances and discrimination.
  •         Exploration of covert institutional power structures and their psychological effects.
  •         Analysis of individual decision-making influenced by power dynamics.
  •         Examination of the relationship between power and moral growth.
  •         Investigation into the construction and administration of policy as a tool for power hoarding.

We welcome original insights, theoretical perspectives, personal reflections, and commentary on these themes. Submissions should be concise and accessible, aiming to stimulate further discussion and scholarship in the field.

Join us in uncovering the complexities of power and discrimination, and in fostering a more equitable and inclusive society.

Submission Guidelines:

• • Length: Short articles, approximately 800-2000 words.
  • Format: Please submit in Word or PDF format.
  • Deadline:

We look forward to your contributions.

Please read our Chacruna Chronicles Author Guide and publishing agreement before submitting.

Chacruna’s Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines Series Call for Articles

The history of psychedelics has often emphasized the contributions made by leading researchers, breakthrough therapists, and champions of a psychedelic ethos. It just so happens, that most of the figures whose names were on the scientific papers or political placards, were men. But, behind the scenes and even in the same rooms, women and junior colleagues were also working for a psychedelic future. Whether nurses, therapists, healers, interns, wives, or subjects themselves, women’s perspectives on the history of psychedelics help us to highlight a more inclusive past and perhaps a more diverse set of priorities when it comes to charting a psychedelic future. This call for articles invites you to participate in reclaiming this past, and revisiting this history to include perspectives that have been forgotten, buried, or under-acknowledged. The focus in this series is on women, but we welcome all contributions that engage with ideas of gender in psychedelic history, particularly perspectives that help to bring attention to previously unrecognized contributions or perspectives.

For more information, and submissions write at:

<[email protected]>

Chacruna’s Sex, Power and Psychedelics Series Call for Articles

Chacruna’s Sex, Power & Psychedelics series explores pervasive cultural dynamics related to sex and power as they manifest in psychedelic research, science and communities. This series features reflections and research from individuals navigating  gender, race, power and sexuality as they intersect with the personal use and study of consciousness-altering substances. In this series, we explore how psychedelics can reveal and reform institutional and intellectual forces perpetuating sexual oppression, abuse and inequality, and welcome stories from those seeking to transform them. The series seeks submission for original articles related to this topic.

For more information, and submissions write to Emily Sinclair at:

<[email protected]>

Chacruna’s Queering Psychedelics Series Call for Articles

Psychedelics have encompassed a colorful history of the enchanted, wayward, and weird; its history also includes concrete ways queer folk have fundamentally shaped the substance, style, and spirituality of the psychedelic movement; at the same time, some queer people have been harmed by psychedelic culture’s heteronormative assumptions. The call for articles asks contributors to grapple with how modern psychedelic research might address the unique needs and traumas of sexual and gender minorities—populations that can suffer from challenging mental health conditions brought on by social exclusion, pathologization, criminalization, and stigmatization. We aim to dismantle sexist, heteronormative, transphobic, and homophobic forms of oppression in the psychedelic movement and seek a broad range of perspectives from queer academic researchers, LGBTQIA+ clinicians, Indigenous two-spirit activists, transgender autodidacts, and queer neoshamans to participate in paving the way for the movement’s liberatory potential for all people. Inclusive of the intersectional and liberatory applications of queerness,this series integrates Indigenous outlooks on psychedelics, gender roles, and identity and seeks to ally its struggle with those of other marginalized groups: women, people of color, the disabled, the poor, and people residing in the global south.

For more information, and submissions write at:

<[email protected]>