With over 40 essays that can be read in any order, ranging from vulnerable, personal stories to insightful interviews, Queering Psychedelics features topics from gender and identity, conversion therapy, homophobia, addiction, privilege, sexuality and kink play, and plenty more. Some essays featured have never before been published in English, with some chapters being "the first published queer case study in a legal psychedelic clinical trial."
In many ways, Queering Psychedelics is a landmark book and serves as a valuable tool for anyone and everyone in creating a safer space in the expanding psychedelic community and movement. The collection explores the history of when psychedelics were used in conversion therapy, how psychedelic therapy today can be more queer inclusive, how transgender and other gender-diverse individuals have benefited from psychedelic medicine, the role ayahuasca plays in gender and sexuality within indigenous cultures, and much more. There's many different perspectives and insights throughout the book that can influence the way our culture handles psychedelic medicine moving forward, while also providing insight to modern day issues the LGBTQ+
community is still facing that aren't much discussed in mainstream media.
Certain essays also address specific traumas that are common within the LGBTQ+ community, including various childhood traumas and complex-PTSD. It should be worth noting that complex-PTSD is still rarely discussed today and is very slowly gaining more exposure, so Queering Psychedelics is not just a trauma-informed book, but also perhaps the first book within the psychedelic and LGBTQ+ libraries that address this critical mental health diagnosis.
There's something for anyone in Queering Psychedelics, whether you're a part of the LGBTQ+ community or an ally, involved in the psychedelic movement, or someone just curious about the subject itself. While psychedelics have dark moments in history, we can't lose sight of the power they hold today in creating a more safe, more healed, more inclusive environment, for everyone.
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