We had great representation at the SfAAs in Portland this March, thanks to panels on legalized psilocybin in Colorado and arts-based approaches to destigmatize People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) organized by Dr. Marty Otañez. MA student Ellie Hedt presented: “A Web-Based App for Qualitative Data Analysis to Humanize PWUD;” MA student Nikketa Burges presented, “Zines as Radical Anthropology: Applying DIY to Amplify Unhoused Narratives and Harm Reduction Praxes;” BA student and incoming MA student Mac Ervin presented, “What Can Critical Psychedelic Studies Learn from Ethnobotany and Ethnomusicology?”; and MA student Madjelyn De Jesus presented, “A Critical Indigenous Lens Applied to the Study of Legalized Psilocybin (“Magic”) Mushrooms in Colorado.” Then MA student Nikketa Burges, Arapahoe County Public Health Community Engagement Specialist Betsy Craft, and Dr. Otañez drove it home with a workshop on graphic novel-making on social justice themes.
