ORGANIZERS
Organizers
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Tehseen Noorani
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I am an independent researcher in the final stages of a five-year postdoctoral project documenting how ‘psychedelic’ and ‘psychotic’ experiences, practices and histories are and could be connected. This has involved an ethnography of the overground and underground experimentation happening with, (1) psychedelics, including leading qualitative research with the psychedelics research team at Johns Hopkins University, and (2) madness, including through a Marie Curie fellowship with the Hearing The Voice project at Durham University. My monograph - planned for publication in 2021 - puts these twinned sites into conversation, locating their joint possibilities within the raced and gendered politics of contemporary drug-taking and spirit-making.
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Patricia Kubala
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I'm a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. My research interests include the anthropology of religion, psychological anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, and the anthropology of the senses. In fieldwork-based projects in Cairo, Egypt and the San Francisco Bay Area, I study the ways that traditions are taught and transmitted in contexts marked by colonial violence and illegibility within the existing political and legal frameworks of the modern state. My dissertation, entitled The Medicine World: Psychedelics and the Hope for an Otherwise, explores the revival of interest in psychedelics in contemporary American society.
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Will Hall
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Will Hall is a therapist schizophrenia diagnosis survivor who works with the psychiatric survivor movement. He is the author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness, and is a PhD candidate in psychiatric epidemiology at Maastricht University.
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Kitty Sipple
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Kitty Sipple is a disabled, white, queer, non-binary femme. They are deeply connected to supporting community solutions around healing justice and accessibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. From facilitating writing workshops to holding space in peer-led support groups, they are interested in the symbiotic nature of community care. They just graduated from UMN-Twin Cities where they received a BS in Engineering Studies, Holistic Health and Healing, and Plant/Fungal Biology. Kitty uses they/them pronouns.
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