Joanna Kempner
@joannakempner.bsky.social
Sociologist and Pet Snoozler. Kid Herder and Hobby Hoarder. Award-winning author focused on gender, health, pain, and stigma. New book: Psychedelic Outlaws about pain patients figuring things out on their own. https://bit.ly/psychedelicoutlaws
I love Bari Weiss’s moral clarity in this comment.
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I love Bari Weiss’s moral clarity in this comment.
Yea, actually not so great for a lot of men too, esp if they have a girly disease. But much worse if you happen to be in an even more disenfranchised population. This is 50% of how I ended up writing abt psychedelics for cluster headache…
August 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Yea, actually not so great for a lot of men too, esp if they have a girly disease. But much worse if you happen to be in an even more disenfranchised population. This is 50% of how I ended up writing abt psychedelics for cluster headache…
Do you think she is a human? I have a life to live, and luckily am unencumbered by a fear that rapists are taking estrogen to enter into single sex spaces.
June 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Do you think she is a human? I have a life to live, and luckily am unencumbered by a fear that rapists are taking estrogen to enter into single sex spaces.
Why does this man always look constipated?
June 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Why does this man always look constipated?
Late capitalism killed education.
May 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Late capitalism killed education.
i know i talk with my hands, but after my oura ring thought i was swimming when i was teaching my class yesterday.
May 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
i know i talk with my hands, but after my oura ring thought i was swimming when i was teaching my class yesterday.
Shouldn’t it have efficiency in the slogan?
March 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Shouldn’t it have efficiency in the slogan?
I’m due for CITI certification (mandated ethics training for researchers who study people) and… oh, what’s this? Hmm…
February 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I’m due for CITI certification (mandated ethics training for researchers who study people) and… oh, what’s this? Hmm…
Hallo Brasil! Psychedelic Outlaws is coming your way, by the end of the month. (with a new name, publisher's choice...) @eeschenberg.bsky.social --> fyi
February 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hallo Brasil! Psychedelic Outlaws is coming your way, by the end of the month. (with a new name, publisher's choice...) @eeschenberg.bsky.social --> fyi
A quote from The Body in Pain serves as the epigraph to my first book. I argue, though, that other people's doubt is so toxic that people do actually begin to doubt their own experience of pain.
January 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A quote from The Body in Pain serves as the epigraph to my first book. I argue, though, that other people's doubt is so toxic that people do actually begin to doubt their own experience of pain.
A French journalist asked me why people are lionizing Luigi Mangioni. I told her how racism turns some rule-breakers into outlaws we celebrate while relegating others to the margins as criminals we love to punish. But I guess this works, too. f24.my/Aoi7
December 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
A French journalist asked me why people are lionizing Luigi Mangioni. I told her how racism turns some rule-breakers into outlaws we celebrate while relegating others to the margins as criminals we love to punish. But I guess this works, too. f24.my/Aoi7
lolll! Would've been more popular if they kept it. Though the whole thing would have made more sense if they topped it with an amanita muscaria!
December 12, 2024 at 9:26 PM
lolll! Would've been more popular if they kept it. Though the whole thing would have made more sense if they topped it with an amanita muscaria!
Feeling down? I just came across a scholar with the last name, "Unwin." Sorry buddy.
December 7, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Feeling down? I just came across a scholar with the last name, "Unwin." Sorry buddy.
Should 2024 "Best Dressed" Lists include CEO assassins. Yes or No?
December 6, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Should 2024 "Best Dressed" Lists include CEO assassins. Yes or No?
Is it in poor taste to purchase a backpack spotted on a vigilante?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
December 5, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Is it in poor taste to purchase a backpack spotted on a vigilante?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Letter from Albert Hofmann to Ethan Russo on the possibility that microdoses of LSD might treat migraine.
With gratitude to Ethan Russo for sharing this correspondence, which came about because of his early interest in/research on psychedelics and migraine. (You can find a copy in my book.)
With gratitude to Ethan Russo for sharing this correspondence, which came about because of his early interest in/research on psychedelics and migraine. (You can find a copy in my book.)
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Letter from Albert Hofmann to Ethan Russo on the possibility that microdoses of LSD might treat migraine.
With gratitude to Ethan Russo for sharing this correspondence, which came about because of his early interest in/research on psychedelics and migraine. (You can find a copy in my book.)
With gratitude to Ethan Russo for sharing this correspondence, which came about because of his early interest in/research on psychedelics and migraine. (You can find a copy in my book.)
Nice to see so many people here!!
Although, I gotta say, Zadie Smith's latest essay has me thinking about unplugging altogether. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Although, I gotta say, Zadie Smith's latest essay has me thinking about unplugging altogether. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
November 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Nice to see so many people here!!
Although, I gotta say, Zadie Smith's latest essay has me thinking about unplugging altogether. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Although, I gotta say, Zadie Smith's latest essay has me thinking about unplugging altogether. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Spent a few days in Madison at the UW Pharmacy School’s annual
Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances Symposium. Delightful town. Loved the company. Learned a ton!
Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances Symposium. Delightful town. Loved the company. Learned a ton!
November 9, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Spent a few days in Madison at the UW Pharmacy School’s annual
Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances Symposium. Delightful town. Loved the company. Learned a ton!
Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances Symposium. Delightful town. Loved the company. Learned a ton!
Really excited that I’m able to give away 150 copies of Psychedelic Outlaws to a group of people who do so much to help people in pain. Bit.ly/psychedelicoutlaws
September 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Really excited that I’m able to give away 150 copies of Psychedelic Outlaws to a group of people who do so much to help people in pain. Bit.ly/psychedelicoutlaws
Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Medicine is out today!
Psychedelic Outlaws tells an epic story of people with cluster headaches—an excruciating disease—and their extraordinary journey to find a treatment.
bit.ly/psychedelico...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
Psychedelic Outlaws tells an epic story of people with cluster headaches—an excruciating disease—and their extraordinary journey to find a treatment.
bit.ly/psychedelico...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
June 4, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Medicine is out today!
Psychedelic Outlaws tells an epic story of people with cluster headaches—an excruciating disease—and their extraordinary journey to find a treatment.
bit.ly/psychedelico...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
Psychedelic Outlaws tells an epic story of people with cluster headaches—an excruciating disease—and their extraordinary journey to find a treatment.
bit.ly/psychedelico...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...