Deliberate strands of care, connection, and resistance weave through everything we do.
Our Threads
Our threads are living lines, rooted in ancestral memory and braided through shared experience, mutual care, and collective transformation.
Asians are the largest population in the world, the fastest-growing ethno-racial group in the United States, and deeply embedded in the story of psychedelics. Our cultures carry vast and varied traditions of engaging with altered states—through breathwork, meditation, and the sacred use of psychoactive medicines and sacraments. These practices remain alive and unbroken within many Indigenous lineages in the Global South, even as psychedelic research, therapy, and policy reform gain visibility in the Global North.
Yet, despite our presence and histories, we are too often made invisible or tokenized in psychedelic spaces. Our threads—community, education, and advocacy—aim to change that. Each one helps us reclaim our stories, heal in relationship, and illuminate our rightful place in this transformative movement.
By connecting in community through integration, membership, and wellness circles, we address the isolation and "othering" we have experienced in psychedelic spaces and the world at large, and ensure challenges that surface through experiences with psychedelics—including cultural bereavement due to forced and voluntary migration, colonization, decolonization, and systemic exclusion and oppression; our complex/complicated/cherished ancestral relations; intergenerational and intragenerational trauma; the trauma of foreign and domestic wars, internment and incarceration, and famine; and the myth of the model minority and imposter syndrome—can be properly recognized and supported.
We strive to forge spaces of community care where we can freely express our full identities and shared life experiences, creating what psychologist Jenny Wang describes as “places of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom.
COMMUNITY
Our educational efforts include public lectures and curated resources, such as customized, culturally-sensitive guides on psychedelic experiences, safety in psychedelic spaces, harm reduction, mental health and psychedelics, and support for those who have been harmed through psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Education
Advocacy
APC advocates for Asian presence in psychedelics and increased Asian representation and greater inclusion of BIPOC and other marginalized groups across the psychedelic continuum: clinical trials, research studies, practitioner trainings, and leadership positions across the movement. We support sensible drug policy rooted in love, not war in Asian countries with historically draconian drug laws.