Our Threads
Deliberate strands of care, connection, and resistance weave through everything we do.
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.
COMMUNITY
By connecting in community, we transform isolation into belonging.
We ensure that the insights—comforting or confronting—that arise 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—are properly recognized and supported.
We create spaces of community care where we can freely express our full identities and shared life experiences, cultivating what psychologist Jenny Wang describes as “places of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom”.
Education
By sharing knowledge, we transform uncertainty into empowerment.
Through workshops and curated resources, we offer culturally sensitive guidance on psychedelic experiences, community care, safety and harm reduction—including support for those who have experienced harm in psychedelic spaces.
Advocacy
By advocating for equity and visibility, we transform marginalization into collective power.
We advocte 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 across the movement.
We support sensible drug policy rooted in love, not war in Asian countries with historically punitive drug laws imposed through imperial and colonial forces.