Not Myth, Not Demonic: Indigenous Beliefs in a Colonized World

It’s 1492, in Ayiti. We’re making cassava, children are playing, and our Kacike is sharing knowledge. We then see a huge canoe approaching our shores. We’re used to visitors — we often traded with our brothers and sisters in Borikén — but these new visitors looked different. Little did we know that our kindness and […]
Vomit, Visions, and Vultures: How Ayahuasca Became a Colonial Reset Button for Burned-Out Tech Bros

There’s a certain type of person – let’s call him a Soul-Searching Chad – who books a flight to Peru with a Patagonia duffel and the hope of ‘purging his trauma.’ They just got out of a toxic situationship or a WeWork meltdown and now they’re standing barefoot in the Amazon, trying to get spiritually […]