Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction Hassan Shira
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction Hassan Shira Liberatory Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its…
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Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction Hassan Shira
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. 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. 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.
It is the story of clean syringes, "liberated" from empathetic doctors' offices by activists who were punk women of color who
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