Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine - Synergetic Press Catalog

Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine is an edited collection focused on making psychedelic science, practice, and discourse more accessible and diverse. It aims to address and dismantle sexist, heteronormative, transphobic, and homophobic oppression within the psychedelic community. The book frames this work around cultural heritages and historical context, connecting implications for research and clinical work to the needs and traumas of sexual and gender minorities. It includes discussion of consent, privilege, intersectionality, and identity, and argues that stigma, criminalization, and pathologization shape mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people. The collection also confronts the dark history of psychedelic conversion therapy while highlighting research and promising evidence that substances including MDMA and psilocybin may support life-changing experiences for marginalized communities. It integrates indigenous perspectives on psychedelics, gender roles, and identity and links queer psychedelia to intersectional liberation in an era of assimilation.