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Lily Kay Ross, PhD

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Lily Kay Ross, PhD has been taking a feminist approach to theorizing ethics in psychedelic spaces since 2009, especially with regard to sexual misconduct, abuses of power, charlatans, and the dominance of traditional gender norms in psychedelic spaces. Her PhD research looks at how neoliberal discourses burden victim/survivors of sexual violence with the directive to individually overcome social problems, and the trouble with posttraumatic growth. Her other projects advance best practice and evidence based policies and responses to sexual harm. She is a feminist writer, educator, and violence prevention facilitator. After a five year hiatus from psychedelics, she’s happy to be home.


  • The Masters of Bad Trips
    By Lily Kay Ross, PhD
    on November 11, 2021
  • Decriminalization offers an ethical counterbalance to address sexual misconduct in psychedelic therapy
    By Lily Kay Ross, PhD
    on May 20, 2020
  • The Politics of Grief During a Pandemic
    By Lily Kay Ross, PhD
    on May 7, 2020
  • I Survived Sexual Abuse In The Amazon And Victim Blame At Home
    By Lily Kay Ross, PhD
    on November 20, 2018

Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet

October 8, 2015

Who am I? How do you answer that question? I’m a mother, a wife, a teacher, a scholar. And I’m also a psychedelic woman.


Taking Drugs Seriously: The Reagans, Socrates, and Hypocrisies

March 10, 2016

No offense to Nancy or the U$ government cocaine-smuggling rings that thrived under the regime of her anti-communist ideologue of a husband, but drugs are endemic to life.


Why I Came Out of the Psychedelic Closet

April 15, 2016

I majored in physics at Princeton. I’m a lawyer who graduated from Georgetown Law. I clerked for a Federal Judge. And, of course, I had a positive, life-changing trip on LSD.


Psychedelics and Identity Politics

May 3, 2016

The decades-long “War on Drugs” has created a situation in which the use of psychedelics is a social justice issue.


Why I’m Staying In the Psychedelic Closet

May 17, 2016

The demonization of psychedelic culture is not a social justice issue, and using the language of social justice is damaging to those causes.


Out Yourself

May 25, 2016

You can’t expect to get equal rights unless you push for them, and you can’t push for them without first standing up and being “out.”


The Psychonaut’s Dilemma

May 31, 2016

During an earlier era of psychedelic research, the 1950s-70s, some scientists believed that in order to ethically administer psychedelics to others it was necessary to first experience them oneself.


Be Honest, Is Your Psychedelic Use Purely “Sacred”?

June 2, 2016

Isn’t it just as valid and meaningful for psychedelics to be used for diversion, entertainment, relaxation, and adventure?


Rick Doblin’s Psychedelic Dreams

June 6, 2016

In the late 70's, about seven years after Rick Doblin decided to become a psychedelic therapist and researcher at age 18, he had this potent dream that confirmed his choice of work.


The Asymmetric Risk of Coming Out in Queer and Psychedelic Communities

June 9, 2016

The risk of coming out as queer is grossly unequal to the risk of disclosing as a psychedelic user.


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