Any analysis of fascism will eventually have to include a discussion of origins. Fascists of all stripes fixate on the past. They realize this fixation by pantomiming the hierarchies, traditions, myths, symbols, and aesthetics of so-called predecessor peoples. A properly anti-fascist analysis ought to suggest some avenues for problematizing those…

The story of MK-Ultra is well known in the psychedelic community and has been since it exploded onto the public consciousness in the '70s during the Church Commission. There have been many retellings of the disturbing experiments that the CIA funded during this period. One of the more famous narratives…

Why is the normative “psychedelic scene” so straight? I have been both an out transgender woman and an activist for psychedelic decriminalization for several years now. And in that time, I have met a lot of weirdos, freaks, and other interesting sorts. And for the most part, they’ve always been…

Recently I was having a conversation with my friend, Dee Adams, about the implicit politics of psychedelic culture. It’s a running conversation about an increasingly fraught topic that we trans women who use psychedelics often return to since we have a mutual interest in the subject. This time we were…