What is the responsibility of psychedelics to give back to Indigenous stewards of plant medicines? And what does that actually look like?
Indigenous reciprocity has become a buzzword in the psychedelic community in recent years. As the psychedelic field grows, people who work in psychedelics and people who are just passionate about them want to know how they can take Indigenous peoples who have long used these medicines into account. How can we uphold reverence for Indigenous wisdom while acknowledging the realities of our current medical system? How can a person make sure that they are responsibly taking a psychedelic, if it does have a history of Indigenous use?
We explore all this and more with Bia Labate, co-founder of the Chacruna Institute, and Joseph Mays, program director of the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative. All the proceeds from this event will go back to the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative, which supports Indigenous communities through nurturing ecological wellbeing, including land rights activism, bolstering food security, and strengthening economic resilience.
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About Bia Labate & Joseph Mays
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist based in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, religion, and social justice. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines and serves as Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is also Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Visiting Scholar at Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies. Additionally, she member of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board’s Research Subcommittee, and Advisor at the Synthesis Institute. Dr. Labate is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil and editor of its site since. She is author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books, two special-edition journals, and several peer-reviewed articles (https://bialabate.net).
Joseph Mays, MSc, received his Master’s in Ethnobotany from the University of Kent upon researching responses to globalization by indigenous Yanesha of central Peru. After graduating with biology and anthropology degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, he conducted an ethnobotanical survey in the Ecuadorian cloud forest and published a medicinal plant guide for the Jama-Coaque Ecological Reserve. His conservation work emphasizes how cultural-conditioning influences approaches to biocultural sustainability. Joseph is Program Director of Chacruna’s Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas, where he conducts research and builds connections with small Indigenous communities throughout the Americas to support Chacruna’s mission of increasing cultural reciprocity in the psychedelic space.
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