Emily Jane Steinberg

Emily Jane Steinberg
www.emilyYES.com

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Event
Psychedelic Liberty Summit

URL to the original content
https://chacruna.net/psychedelic-liberty-summit/

Tell us about the work. Why did you choose this event? How did you create the work? What outcome and impact would you like the visual community to support with sharing your work?
This map is a synthesis created over two days of the Chacruna Institute's virtual summit. Grappling with the USA's history of colonialism, conquest and long-standing practices of inflicting and perpetuating racialized trauma, we took a hard look at how the psychedelic movement can and is working to stop replicating that history, to include and elevate indigenous, POC and women's voices, knowledge and traditions, and deliver health and healing to all beings on earth. Originally I was supposed to be scribing this digitally and in person, but when it moved to a virtual event I said I'll still do it, but on the wall, the way I love to work best - a synthesis map that pushes me to the extremes of what I'm capable of internalizing, processing, and producing.

Event
Together Apart - New York Times podcast conversation with Priya Parker and Jodi Kantor

URL to the original content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaP1yCBeqBA

Tell us about the work...
I chose this event to find my way back into analogue scribing, after not being onsite with clients since February. And working on paper and with my whole body is even more crucial now in this 'virtual' world. Being familiar with Priya Parker's work, this conversation around connecting while apart seemed like a perfect starting point to explore the nuanced and non-digital ways that we can connect at this time. Priya told a story of Andrea Bocelli's Easter Sunday performance, and that he described it "not as a spectacle, but as a prayer." That landed in the center of the map, on the laptop screen. I hope that this is how we can use this moment, and that the technologies we rely on now to connect can also be aids in our transcendence.