Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness
The Sociological Review July 1, 2023 Alex Dymock 3 citations
Psychedelic substances have shifted in public consciousness over the last 15 years, yet influential first-person narratives of psychonauts and 'scientist-shamans' have largely excluded women's experiences and voices. Psychedelic feminism has emerged to signify how consciousness expansion might rejuvenate feminism's collective imagination and undo the historical silencing of women in psychedelic culture and research. Drawing on Mark Fisher's acid communism, feminist psychedelic humanities, narcofeminism, and autobiographical life-writing by women on experimental psychedelic substance use, this article investigates the promise of acid feminism for the wider narcofeminist movement and its implications for undoing key precepts endemic in psychedelic culture and research.