Episode #16: Mother, Scholar, Teacher, Revolutionary: Neşe Devonot

Psychedelic Parenting Podcast

MOTHER, SCHOLAR, TEACHER, REVOLUTIONARY: NEŞE DEVENOT \Today is the last day of Lent, as tomorrow begins the Holy Triduum (the three days leading up to Easter), and this is our sixth consecutive episode, fulfilling our promise to bring you an episode every week of Lent without fail. Thanks go out to KMO for inspiring this goal with his 9+ years and 500 episodes of weekly C-Realm Podcasts! This effort has been so much fun and so energizing that we're just going to keep on going! To celebrate the goal and the return of Spring, we are asking that you help us reach 1000 "likes" by the end of March! Click the Button below to "like" our Facebook Page and invite others who might find us inspiring to do the same! Nese and Ellis-D Today, Jonathan talks with his friend, Dr. Neşe Devenot, PhD., Neşe is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, where she teach classes on psychedelics and literature. She is also working on a book, Chemical Poetics: The Literary History of Psychedelic Science. Neşe was also a 2015-16 Research Fellow at the New York Public Library's Timothy Leary Papers and a Research Fellow with the New York University Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study, where she participated in a qualitative study of patient experiences. Neşe received her PhD in 2015 from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing her studies on psychedelic philosophy, the literary history of chemical self-experimentation (“trip reports”), and radical poetics. She is the founder of the Psychedemia interdisciplinary psychedelics conference (which has a radical and profound influence on Jonathan and inspired the creation of this very website), and was a founding member of the MAPS Graduate Student Association. In this conversation, Jonathan and Neşe discuss her radical healing from crippling childhood social anxiety through the intervention of LSD, her struggles with postpartum depression, and her advocacy for human breastmilk sharing. They also talk about the founding of Psychedemia, her work on the Leary Papers, and their shared conviction in the urgent need for more women and voices of color in the psychedelic conversation. Neşe also talks about her recent news that she is one of the recipients of the 2016 Cosmic Sister Spirit Plant and Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance Grants. As always, if you like what you hear and see at Psychedelic Parenting, please consider a tax-deductible gift to this work though our fiscal sponsor, The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, using the button below! Current donations are being used to pay for podcast hosting and the purchase books for our upcoming series of review articles. 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TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Neşe Chemical Poetics Neşe's Website and book project Neşe's work on Academia.com #StopTheRaids March Michigan Moms United Charmie Gholson Michigna NORML WomenGrow Bard College University of Pennsylvania, "UPenn" University of Puget Sound Psychedemia Psychedemia: The Movie (a MUCH thinner Jonathan can be seen at 2:05) Home Page Facebook Group Jezebel: "It's a Lot More Fun to Play Make Believe with Your Kids If You're Slightly High on Weed" Psychedelic Parenting: "When Being Dad IS the Ceremony" Neurons to Nirvana New York Public Library Timothy Leary Archive "Greatest Hits" Page Hyperallergic "The Tim Leary Papers are Now Available to the Public" NY Times "Public Library Buys Tim Leary Papers" Chemical Poetics: "The Leary Papers" Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library @ Harvard hlc.harvard.edu "The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection" Booktryst "The LSD Library Goes to Harvard" Psychoactive Substances Library @ Purdue Purdue Today: "The Psychoactive Substances Research Collection" Home Page for the collection C-Span: "Stephanie Schmitz Talks About the Collection"(video) Timothy Leary Archives: "Acid Bodhisattva" (interview with Michael Horowitz Milk Sharing Eats on Feets Reality Sandwich: "It Takes a Village" by Neşe Food Safety News: "Human Milk-Sharing Networks, A Growing Movement" Microdosing to treat Depression IFL Science: "Small Doses of LSD Can Treat Anxiety and Depression" Vice: "This is What it Feels Like to Treat Depression with Magic Mushrooms" Metro UK: "Taking Magic Mushrooms Cured My Depression" James Fadiman, author of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet Neşe's talk at Psymposia 2015 Rick Doblin on London Real Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power To Heal Audio Book "Pahnke's 'Good Friday Experiment:' A Long-Term Follow Up and Methodological Critique" by Rick Doblin Student Resources MAPS Grad Student Listserv Other Student Resources Feminism and Psychedelics Annie Oak: "A Brief History of the Women's Entheogen Fund" MAPS Bulletin, Autumn 2006 Joseph Gelfer: "Entheogenic Spirituality and Gender in Australia" Paranthropology October, 2012 Lilly Kay Ross: "Sex, Drugs, & Power" Psymposia 2014 ZoeHelene.com: "Psychedelic Femenism" The Cosmic Sister Spirit Plant Grant Alternet: "A Feminist on A Misson" Zoe Helene Dreamglade Retreat Center NYU Cancer Anxiety Psilocybin Study Literary History of Trip Reports Neşe at Psymposia's "Psychedelic Stories" Darwin's Pharmacy by Richard Doyle Richard Doyle presentation LucidNYC The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness by Alan Watts