Olivia is an editor and writer at Psymposia. She has a B.A. in Philosophy and Government from Smith College and is now based out of Boston. She has a passion for pot and public policy and is also an avid rugby player whose hobbies include, tearing down the patriarchy and powerlifting.
April 22, 2019
How do you center the needs and perspectives of people of color in your activism—not because you want to fill a quota, but because the success of your work depends on it?
October 9, 2019
With the recent creation of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, we must remember that, while industrialized medicine has never attempted to serve all people, institutional histories vary from one organization to the next.
October 21, 2019
Reality Sandwich was sold to a group called Delic Corp. Now there's a lawsuit.
October 22, 2019
Chicago’s Committee on Health and Human Relations unanimously passed (50-0) a resolution October 16 to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi.
October 31, 2019
Climate justice is racial justice, and we cannot achieve racial justice without ending the War on Drugs.
November 21, 2019
With a checkered history of misconduct, how will psychedelic-assisted therapists be held accountable in the emerging legal field?
November 25, 2019
The first time I bought a balloon of heroin I was 20 years old. Fresh out of rehab, I was craving opiates—specifically OxyContin.
December 5, 2019
Pinchbeck has not publicly engaged in the difficult work of reorganizing his relationship to power, which is a precondition for learning to wield power and authority responsibly. Instead, he has shown that he is predominantly concerned with reestablishing his career and with recentering himself as an authority figure
December 19, 2019
A corrective experience achieved through dropping acid and running the 2019 Burning Man Ultramarathon
January 15, 2020
A recent BBC story entitled “The ‘psychedelics coach’ with drug-fuelled career advice,” offers an opportunity to examine what happens when sloppy journalism and self-promotional psychedelic marketers collide.
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