Queering Psychedelics

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Queering Psychedelics: An Introduction xi
Section 1: From Oppression to Liberation: Organizing for Change
- A Queer Vision for Psychedelic Research: Past Reckonings,Current Reforms, and Future Transformations 3
o Alex Belser, PhD, and Ava Keating
- Where Is the Love? Queerness and the State of Psychedelic Research 13
o Amy Bartlett, LLB, LLM, Challian Christ, Stéphanie Manoni-Millar, Terence H. W. Ching, PhD
- A Queer Response to Psychedelic Privilege 21
o Ariel Vegosen
- A Consensual Discourse Dialogue 29
o Courtney Watson and Emma Knighton
- Community Care: The Heart of Queer Psychedelic Liberation 35
o Diana Quinn, ND
Section 2: Psychedelic Conversion Therapy
- LSD and Mescaline Psychedelic Conversion Therapies in Postwar North America 45
o Andrea Ens
- Psyched Straight: The Early Life of LSD as a Conversion Therapy Drug 53
o Tal Davidson
- High Dose Psychedelic Shock Therapy with LSD and Mescaline: The Conversion Treatment of a French Doctor on Two Homosexual Adolescents in the 1960s 59
o Zoë Dubus
Section 3: Queering the Clinic: Psychedelic Treatment
- Queer Rejection, Isolation, and the Promise of Psychedelics 67
o Matthew D. Skinta, PhD, ABPP
- Unicorns and Stardust: A Case Report of Queering MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy 75
o Chris Stauffer, MD, and Andrea Rosati, MD, PhD
- Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Prescribing Psychedelics as Harm Reduction to Help Gay Men Quit Crystal Meth 81
o John Haupert, NP
- The Quest for Queer Liberation: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Shame 89
o Shanna Butler, PhD, and Laura Mae Northrup
- Widening the Lens: Set and Setting in Queer Psychedelia 97
o Jeanna Eichenbaum
- Best Practices for Assessing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Psychedelic Clinical Trials: A Proposed Assessment 103
o Scott McKernan, MA, and Alex Belser, PhD
Section 4: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Psychedelic Experience
- Transcending Dysphoria: Exploring the Novel Counter-Dysphoric and Lifesaving Effects of Psychedelics in the Transgender Community 111
o Sam Claude Carmel
- Gender Rituals and Gendered Ritual: Reflections of a Transgender Activist in the Psychedelic Community 121
o Taylor Dahlia Bolinger
- A Patient's Perspective on the Healing Potential of Psilocybin 129
o PatientNB
- Integrate with Me: A Story of Queer and Trans Liberation through Entheogenic Therapy 133
o Tristan Angieri
Section 5: Race, Intersectionality, and Psychedelics as Liberatory Tools for LGBTQIA+ folks
- 火 + 木: An Intersectional Experience of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy 143
o Terence H. W. Ching, PhD
- Queer Identity, African Diasporic Spirituality, and Intersectional Healing through Psychedelic Medicine 149
o Kaston D. Anderson-Carpenter, PhD
- A New Standard: The Urban Heroic Dose of 10g 155
o Behike Sensei Kevon Simpson
Section 6: Psychedelics and LGBTQIA+ Self-Acceptance
- Out of All the Boxes: How Psychedelic Experiences Empower and Affirm Queer Worldviews 169
o Kate Kincaid
- Can Psychedelics Queer You Up? How They Helped Me Embrace Fluidity 177
o Valentin Somma, PhD
- How Psychedelics Can Guide the Transformative Journey of Polyamory 185
o Justin Natoli, JD, LMFT
Section 7: Ayahuasca, Santo Daime, and Queer Psychedelic Spirituality
- A Two-Spirit Approach to Psychedelics: Honoring Indigenous Identities and Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality 195
o Marca Cassity and Katherine A. Costello, PhD
- Reflections on Spirituality, Gender, and Power in my Experience with Santo Daime 205
o Clancy Cavnar, PsyD
- Ayahuasca and Gender in Brazil: An Interview With Sociologist Dr. Pietro Benedito?Are Homophobia and Transphobia Sacred? 213
o Beatriz C. Labate
- Sacred-Species-Social Reproduction 221
o Zach Levine
Section 8: Sexuality, Psychedelics, and Queer Pleasure
- Reclaiming Ecstasy: A Radical Queer Perspective on the Power of Pleasure in Psychedelic Healing 231
o Dee Dee Goldpaugh
- Queering Psychedelic Erotics: Deconstructing Sex and Embodiment with LSD 239
o Alex Dymock, PhD
- Dungeons of Perception: How the Psychedelic and Kink Community Can Learn from Each Other to the Benefit of the Queer Community 245
o Denise Renye, PsyD
Section 9: Expansive Queer Psychedelic Phenomenology
- Mushrooms, Magick, and Wilderness: Radical Queer Group Psilocybin Rituals 255
o joie wolfw-m-n
- Connecting to Queer-Inclusive Mythologies for Psychedelic Integration 263
o Kile M. Ortigo, PhD, and Daan Keiman
- The Psychonaut, the Rapist, and the Rainbow 273
o Ayesha Hussain
Contributor Biographies 279
Editor Biographies 289
References 291
Index 311