Beatriz Caiuby Labate - Psychedelic Justice: Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture

Labate and Cavnar have done it again: an excellent, timely anthology that addresses crucial issues in the psychedelic community of social equity, the globalization of psychedelic substances and culture, and our shared responsibility to prevent the extinction of these plants and animals.

Julie Holland, MD
Author of Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection from Soul to Psychedelics (Harper Wave, 2020)

A powerful and thought provoking collection of essays that confront our colonial and patriarchal collective shadow. Deeply informative and challenging, the way thinking ought to be these days, as we are taking giant leaps towards psychedelic mainstreaming.

Maria Papaspyrou
Co-editor of Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States and Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine

Questions about whether and how psychedelics can lead to a better world have abounded for decades in the West, but its notoriously hard to translate profound psychedelic experiences of unity, transcendence, and love into values-driven action in our everyday consensus reality. Dr. Labate and Dr. Cavnars new edited book Psychedelic Justice highlights many of the challenges we face in navigating diversity, equity, access, and ethics in this current psychedelic renaissance. These are not easy topics, but by addressing spiritual bypassing and engaging in mutually respectful dialogue, we can raise voices that too often are silenced. Theres enough room for all of us to be included in fact, it benefits everyone to ensure thats so.

Kile Ortigo, PhD
Author of Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide for Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration

Psychedelic Justice is an inspiring and important collection of essays that ask the hard questions the psychedelic community needs to grapple with to move forward with integrity.

Michelle Janikian
Author of Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion

This volume should be necessary reading for anyone interested in psychedelics or is in some way part of the so-called psychedelic renaissance. It brings together diverse voices that do a marvelous job highlighting the difficult conversations within the community. Read with an open mind and prepare to be humbled.

Evgenia Fotiou, PhD., Cultural Anthropologist

For those at the crest of the wave, the once illicit, now burgeoning emergent field of psychedelic research and treatments, offers immense and rich possibilities. Who is included, who has safe access, who has the power and privilege of participating, dispensing, and using psychedelics, are crucial issues and questions that must be brought to the fore. For People of the Global Majority, POC, BIPOC, and Queer communities, wondering where you fit in, in the field of psychedelics, and for all others who care about social justice in healing, the dynamic and diverse voices presented in the beautifully written, Chacruna Anthology, Psychedelic Justice, provide a vitally important, cultural and historical resource that passionately and thoughtfully explores these issues.

Licia Sky
Co-founder and CEO of the Trauma Research Foundation

Sharp, original, and insightful! Psychedelic Justice presents a series of unique and informed perspectives that are truly engaged with cultural diversity and reciprocity. Every chapter is a breath of fresh air that embraces an astonishing journey in the psychedelic landscape.

Osiris Gonzlez
Post-doctoral Researcher in Cognitive Freedom and Psychedelic Humanities

Finally I can see myself, my ancestors, my children reflected in a text about psychedelics! This is a necessary book for anyone in the field to add to their scholarly collection, particularly Black and Brown folx in the psychedelic space who find themselves often missing from the pages of popular publications about the psychedelic renaissance. Thanks to Chacruna for this offering, a full picture of what these times and these medicines mean for all of us and so beautifully capturing these missing voices by giving them a platform to speak with this collection.

Courtney Watson, LMFT
Owner of Doorway Therapuetic Services

Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture

EDITED BY

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar

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Monnica T. Williams, PhD, ABPP

Mestre Irineu:
A Black Man Who Changed the History of Ayahuasca

Glauber Loures de Assis, PhD

Erika Dyck PhD and Chacruna Institute

When Feminism Functions as White Supremacy:
How White Feminists Oppress Black Women

Monnica T. Williams, PhD, ABPP

Beatriz C. Labate, PhD and NiCole T. Buchanan, PhD

Sean Lawler, MFA and Mellody Hayes, MD

NiCole T. Buchanan, PhD

Belinda Eriacho, MPH

Leopardo Yawa Bane

Diana Negrn, PhD

UMIYAC

Rosala Acosta Lpez, Inti Garca Flores, Sarai Pia Alcntara

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized:
Psychedelics Potential for Systemic Change

Bill Brennan, PhD (C)

Capitalism on Psychedelics:
The Mainstreaming of an Underground

Erik Davis, PhD

Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner, MSc

Jeanna Eichenbaum, LCSW

Bett Williams

Clancy Cavnar, PsyD

Alexander Belser, PhD

Katherine A. Costello, PhD and Marca Cassity, BSN, LMFT

Mary

Sexual Assault and Gender Politics in Ayahuasca Traditions:
A View from Brazil

Gretel Echaz, PhD and Pietro Benedito, PhD

Juliana Mulligan, BA

Psychedelic Masculinities:
Reflections on Power, Violence, and Privilege

Gabriel Amezcua, MA (C)

Beatriz C. Labate, PhD and Emily Sinclair, PhD (C)

Charlotte Walsh, MPhil

Anya Ermakova, PhD and Martin Terry, DVM, PhD

Geoff Bathje, PhD, Vilmarie Fraguada Narloch, PsyD, and Joseph Rhea, JD, PhD

Matthew Baggot, PhD

Celina De Leon, MDIV

The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines was co-founded by Brazilian anthropologist Bia Labate, PhD, and American psychologist Clancy Cavnar, PsyD, in San Francisco in 2017. We provide public education about psychedelic plant medicines and promote a bridge between the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science. As psychedelics go mainstream, we curate critical conversations about controversial and marginalized topics in the space. We also promote access, inclusion, and diversity by uplifting the voices of women, queer people, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and the Global South in the field of psychedelic science.