Afrofuturism Is a Psychedelic Practice—Even Without the Drugs

Written By Stephanie Karzon

There is a tendency to pair psychedelia with something ingested, like a molecule, and perhaps a mind melting experience.
But long before the current psychedelic renaissance found its language in clinical trials and venture capital, there were entire cultural movements that embodied psychedelic thinking without relying on substances at all. Afrofuturism is one of them.

Afrofuturism is often described as a cultural aesthetic that blends science fiction, African diasporic history, and speculative futures. Afrofuturism is also very much a reorientation of perception. It dissolves linear time, reclaims narrative authorship, and constructs alternate realities in which Black identity is expansive, technologically integrated, and cosmically situated. In other words, it does what psychedelics are often said to do: it loosens the grip of inherited structures and opens the door to new ways of seeing.

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