Tag: WomensHistory

Gurus Behaving Badly: Anaïs Nin’s Diary & the Value of Gossip

Anaïs Nin wrote about Timothy Leary in her diary. She didn't like him. But what...

Better Living Through Chemistry

Connie Littlefield discusses her new documentary, "Better Living Through Chemistry," about psychedelic pioneers Alexander "Sasha"...

Celebrating 25 Weeks of ‘Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines’

Look back on the first 25 weeks of our "Women in the History of Psychedelic...

Mescaline Scribe

Simone de Beauvoir read and edited everything Jean-Paul Sartre published, and wrote a valuable account...

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...

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