Saving our own lives : a liberatory practice of harm reduction / Shira Hassan ; edited by Deana G. Lewis ; foreword by adrienne maree brown ; introduction by Tourmaline ; afterword by Rosario Dawson

  • Hassan, Shira
Date:
2022
  • Books

About this work

Description

A comprehensive collection of intergenerational voices on Liberatory Harm Reduction, mutual aid, and building community to save lives.

Publication/Creation

Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2022.

Physical description

xix, 355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

Foreword / adrienne maree brown -- Introduction / Tourmaline -- Welcome -- Liberatory Harm Reduction Saved My Life -- Revolutionary Love Notes -- People Power and the Original Harm Reductionists: The History of a Movement / Monique Tula -- A Conversation / with P. Catlin Fullwood -- Imani Woods, Fred Johnson, and Liberatory Harm Reduction / Kelli Dorsey -- Liberatory Spaces of Glamorous, Queer Punk Rage / Kelly McGowan aka Patti O'Poser -- The System Is Not Broken, but It Will Break Us if We Do Not Work Together to Dismantle It / conversation with Kiara St. James -- Lincoln Detox Center: The People's Drug Program / interview with Vicente "Panama" Alba -- We Go Where Our People Are / interview with Native Youth Sexual Health Network -- Indigenizing Harm Reduction / Native Youth Sexual Health Network -- Understanding Harm Reduction -- Moving Away from Public Health Harm Reduction -- Revolutionary Love Notes -- Harm Reduction Is Disability Justice: It's Not Out There, It's in Here / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Conversation / with La Tony Alvarado-Rivera and Bonsai Bermudez -- The Beautiful Mess: Justice in Our Healing -- Revolutionary Love Notes -- The Intersection of Healing Justice and Harm Reduction in Liberatory Practice / conversation with Cara Page and Erica Woodland -- We Are Not the Problem--We Are the Solution / conversation with Dominique McKinney -- Applying Liberatory Harm Reduction to Mental Health and Psychiatric Medication / The Icarus Project, Freedom Center -- Eating Disorders and Liberatory Harm Reduction -- Nalgona Positivity Pride / conversation with Gloria Lucas -- Transformative Justice and Liberatory Harm Reduction -- Revolutionary Love Notes -- But I Cannot Be Silenced / conversation with Monica Jones -- Erasure Is Real / conversation with Deon Haywood -- I Believe(d?) in Violence -- Revolutionary Love Notes -- Harm Reduction Is Our Shared Root / interview with Mariame Kaba -- Harm Reduction Is Grace in Action / interview with Dominique Morgan -- Closing -- Afterword / Rosario Dawson -- Gratitude -- Index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JQC.U
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781642598810
  • 164259881X