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Liberatory Harm Reduction is one of the most important
interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its
critical stories and voices was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be
found. Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time
organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of
how sex workers, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer
folks, trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are -
and have been - building systems of change and support outside the
societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation. This is a
collective story of trans women of color, who were sex workers and
radical political organizers, who created shared housing to ensure
that young people had safe places to sleep. It is the story of
clean syringes, "liberated" from empathetic doctors' offices by
activists who were punk women of color who distributed them among
injection drug users in squats in the East Village, and the early
AIDS activists who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It
is the story of Black Panthers and the Young Lords taking over
Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create
community-accessible drug treatment programs; and of bad date
sheets passed between sex workers in Portland, who created a data
collection tool that changed how prison abolitionists track
systemic violence. At a political moment when Liberatory Harm
Reduction and mutual aid are more important than ever, this book
serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for radical transformation
of our world.
Harm reduction is one of the most important movements of the 20th
century, and yet a compilation of its critical stories and voices
was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be found. Saving Our Own
Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira
Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers,
people of color, queer folks, and trans, gender non-conforming, and
two-spirit people are building systems of change and support
outside the societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation.
This is a collective story of Bad Date sheets passed between sex
workers in Portland, leading to the identification of a serial
killer. It is the story of clean syringes, “liberated” from
empathetic doctors offices and passed between punks in squats in
the East Village by women of color, and the early AIDS activists
who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It is the story
of transwomen of color, street-based sex workers, who created
shared housing to ensure that young people had safe places to
sleep. It is the story of Black Panthers creating a free breakfast
program to feed a revolution and the Young Lords taking over
Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create
community-accessible drug treatment programs. At a political moment
when Liberatory Harm Reduction and mutual aid are more important
than ever, this book serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for
radical transformation of our world.
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