Nicholas Powers Ph.D. - Psychedelics, Race, Where They Intersect, and Where They Don't
Psychedelics Today
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šļø 19 December 2017
ā±ļø 60 minutes
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Summary
Show Topics
- Diversity in research
- Monica Williams - Diversity in the psychedelic research
- The trust between diverse populations and institutional research
- History of forced sterilizations and the Tuskegee syphilis study
- The importance of storytelling and authentically listening to stories of people from other cultural backgrounds
- Start your own psychedelic community
- Psychedelics and intergenerationalĀ trauma
- Including minority groups into the psychedelic community
https://vimeo.com/237699822
Nick's Book
The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street
Links/Show Notes
- Nick's Blog
- SUNY Old Westbury
- Nick's Writing on "The Indypendent"
- Race-Based Trauma: The Challenge and Promise of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
- Tuskegee syphilis experiment
About Nicholas Powers, Ph.D.
Nicholas Powers is a poet, journalist and professor. His books,Ā The Ground Below ZeroĀ andĀ Theater of War, was published by Upset Press. He has written forĀ The Indypendent,Ā AlternetĀ andĀ The Village Voice. He has spoken and read all over the country. He teaches literature at SUNY Old Westbury and co-hosts the long running New York City College Poetry Slam at the Nuyorican Cafe. If you would like to work with Nick, please contact tara@upsetpress.org. 
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore here with Kyle Buller. |
| 0:13.5 | Kyle. We just got the opportunity to record with Dr. Nick Powers from SUNY. |
| 0:18.9 | Do you remember the city? |
| 0:20.2 | Sunni Old Westbury. Old Westbury in Long Island. I got the |
| 0:23.7 | opportunity to catch his talk at the Horizons conference and it was incredible. And he had a standing |
| 0:29.8 | ovation. It was, I believe, I hope this is true that it was the only standing ovation at the conference. |
| 0:35.3 | But that's what I saw at least. For me, it was the only standing ovation I saw. So to me, it was the only one.vation at the conference. But that's what I saw, at least. |
| 0:39.9 | For me, it was the only standing ovation I saw. |
| 0:41.0 | So to me, it was the only one. |
| 0:45.5 | But it was incredible because it talked about race, where race and psychedelics meet and don't meet. |
| 0:46.2 | It was talking about how to help minority communities with psychedelics, how to integrate |
| 0:51.6 | the current psychedelic movement with minorities, and, you know, |
| 0:55.2 | perhaps developing, you know, psychedelic movements on a more local basis for minorities, |
| 1:00.4 | like start small. Maybe it's the New York Black Psychedelic Alliance or something like that. |
| 1:05.7 | So it was a really fun interview. Kyle, what did you think? It was a great interview. It felt |
| 1:10.6 | like a tease |
| 1:11.3 | because it's a little bit on the shorter end, but we're hoping to have him back on. Yeah, |
| 1:17.4 | really great. And if you haven't seen his Horizons talk, I really recommend you checking that |
| 1:23.0 | out. Horizons has it up on their web somewhere. It will embed it on this podcast post too. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, good point. |
| 1:30.0 | So psychedelics today.com and you'll find it there. |
| 1:32.6 | There's a second time I've seen, well, I originally met Nick at a symposium |
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