Women's Visionary Council

07/20/2026

Our intern, Emily Alice, is presenting at the upcoming Women & Entheogens Conference 2026 on the East Coast (Dorchester!). Come hear her and her colleague, Paul GIllis-Smith, talk about how unsung women of psychedelic history - Lisa Bieberman and psychedelic s*x workers - employ their respective methods for mastering the psychedelic-erotic. Tickets here: https://www.womenandentheogensconference.com/tickets

The conference is this Friday, June 24th - Sunday June 26th. EA and PGS present at 10:30am on Sunday. There is childcare! Something more psychedelic and conference spaces so badly need.

07/15/2026

Join Raquel Bennett, Psy.D., founder of KRIYA Institute, next month on Sunday, August 2nd, at the The Berkeley Alembic for her workshop on potential futures for ketamine. Dr. Bennett will speak about her favorite topics: therapeutic ketamine and visionary medicines. How did we get here, and where are we going as a field? Are regulation and oversight actually necessary?

She has offered our network $15 off the ticket price; use the code 15OFF. Register now via the link in our bio.

07/01/2026

Join Raquel Bennett, founder of KRIYA Institute, next month at the The Alembic for her workshop on potential futures for ketamine. Dr. Bennett will speak about her favorite topics: therapeutic ketamine and visionary medicines. How did we get here, and where are we going as a field? Are regulation and oversight actually necessary?

She has offered our network $15 off the ticket price; use the code 15OFF. Register now!

06/29/2026

We celebrated Tram Day on June 13th this year (the official date is June 12th!), but it is still not too late to join us for a ride... Check out a few videos and pictures from our amazing day at Berkeley Chapel of the Flowers. Thank you to all our attendees, speakers, performers, and volunteers!

Rainbow Valentine Lemur Dana Smith Psychedelic Women

06/26/2026

Register now for this event happening *THIS SUNDAY!*

Hear WVC Co-founder, Maria Mangini, interview Denis Berry on their largely unsung work as an archivist of the psychedelic Underground. Hosted by the Shulgin Foundation. What a gift to hear the testimonies and wisdom from both Denis and Maria! 💐

06/17/2026

Del Potter on his substack details with care the ways the cannabis movement's histories and gains can be nullified and forgotten through political and economic means. WVC seeks to document, remember, and honor our psychedelic elders and their work, but this task requires myriad fronts and strategies to prevent enclosure and erasure.

"The movement spent fifty years and a generation of arrests to make this plant legitimate. Legitimacy arrived, and it arrived wearing a name the movement cannot use, attached to evidence the movement cannot cite, on a shelf the movement cannot reach. Linnaeus described the plant and gave the description away. Vertanical described one cultivar of it and kept the description, the name, and the market. The difference between Cannabis sativa L. and Exilby is the difference between a commons and an enclosure, and it is now written into the pharmacopoeia of two countries with a third to follow."

Eight days after I wrote that pharma had conceded the entourage effect, a German firm’s full-spectrum cannabis drug was approved in Europe under a trademark. The forecast is now a product on a shelf.

06/12/2026

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY! Tickets in bio! ✨️💓🚎

06/12/2026

SEE YOU THIS SATURDAY AT TRAM DAY 2026!

TIX IN BIO!

06/09/2026

This Tram Day, we are pleased to have one of our co-founders, 💫 Dr. Mariavittoria Mangini 💫, share some words and help us hold space. Her contributions to the psychedelic movement are countless, including her PhD dissertation, "Yes, Mom Took Acid!" Support the WVC to support our psychedelic elders and ensure their expertise and wisdom is not lost for later generations!

Get Your Tram Day Tickets Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tram-day-2026-tickets-1989628657875