PROZ – Psychedelic Women: Invisible Pioneers and Forgotten Voices

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This talk by Professor of American Literature and Culture Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (UNIL) will explore the relationship between women and psychedelics through three main approaches. First of all, in order to make our cultural memory more complete, we will explore the role of women in psychedelic history. For example, few people know that the lab assistant who accompanied Albert Hoffman home by bicycle on that historical April day in Basel in 1943 when he ingested LSD deliberately for the first time was a 20-year-old female lab assistant. Suzi Ramstein became two months later the first woman to deliberately take LSD to explore its effects and was instrumental in fine-tuning our understanding of appropriate dosage. The presentation will also explore the more profound insights that can emerge from an encounter of feminism and psychedelic history and will end with a look at the place of gender in psychedelic-assisted therapy…