Tram Day: Celebrating Psychedelic History and Honoring Women Pioneers

🚋 Tram Day is a new annual holiday created to honor Susi Ramstein — the first woman to take LSD — and to celebrate the powerful, often unacknowledged role of women in this movement.

For 40 years, Bicycle Day has celebrated Dr. Hofmann’s famous first trip.
But what about the woman who accompanied him — his lab assistant, the first guide? 

🌟 Join us on Saturday, June 14 at The Alembic in Berkeley from 1–6 p.m.
for an afternoon of remembrance, reverence, and renewal.

 ✨ Enjoy lectures, comedy, art, music, and more with the Women’s Visionary Council in honor of Women Pioneers in History.

This gathering includes:
🎤 A talk by Maria Mangini on Susi Ramstein and the origins of Tram Day
📖 A featured lecture + Q&A:
“The Daughters of Eleusis” by Ayize Jama-Everett,
whose talk invites us into a decolonized, community-centered approach to healing (see below 👇)
🎭 A comedic “newscast” by Annie Oak
🎨 Visionary Postcards: Messages to the Future
🖼️ A photo booth with a tram backdrop
💫 Silent auction, awards, WVC merch
🎶 Live music jam + social time

🌀 Ayize Jama-Everett’s talk dives deep into:
• The suppressed history of the Eleusinian Mysteries, led by post-menopausal women over 2,000 years ago
• How psychedelics were central to rites of passage rooted in the rhythms of women’s bodies, seasons, and souls
• Patriarchal erasure—from Theodosius to the Enlightenment
• Why the modern psychedelic renaissance risks repeating this exclusion
• The call to heal through community, ritual, and reverence for “the divine darkness”

“I only journey with women over fifty, connected to the land.”

This is not a gentle stroll through history.
It’s a fire-walk through 4,000 years of erasure, reclamation, and radical imagination.

🎟️ Tickets: $25–$125 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds
🔗 Link to buy tickets here. 

Here’s a short video from last year’s celebration: Tram Day 2024!