@kairiver
they/them | Anthropology PhD Candidate @ GWU studying psychedelics and American culture | indie filmmaker & poet website: www.kairiverblevins.com researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kai-Blevins
In an email to the Psychedelic Communications Hub on June 18, 2024—2 weeks after the FDA advisory committee voted against approving Lykos' MDMA aplication—Robyn Thomas enlisted the Hub’s support for a “Crisis Communications Plan” covering the lead-up to the FDA’s ultimate approval or rejection. 1/7
People often claim psychedelics have been used globally, for millennia, & in rituals of psychological healing.
In today's Guardian Long Read, I show what these stories get wrong & why the reality is far more interesting: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
From "Shamanism: The Timeless Religion"
Power is central to health care interactions - but how? I wrote about language and power in my commentary article that was published this morning in AJOB. Check out the link below!
#bioethics #anthropology #linguisticanthropology #pragmatics #ideology
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We need a new approach to dealing with #psychedelic #hype. I just published about the benefits of a "care approach" to hype in the Backchannels blog by @4sweb.bsky.social. Let me know what you think!
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#psychedelicstudies #bioethics #sts #careethics #caretheory
I recently published a short commentary on #psychedelic #ethics in AJOB. I'm so glad I got to bring insights from my #ethnographic fieldwork into this conversation. I've learned so much from my interlocutors, and I hope other #bioethicists will too!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Panel CfP! I'm co-organizing a panel at the EASST-4S conference in July titled "Unpacking the Hype: Critical Approaches to Psychedelic Studies." Submissions are open until Feb 12. Lmk if you have questions!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/panel/14470