You may have started following me through Mutual Aid, Astrology, or Dance, but something that is at the root of all the things I offer to community is my lived experience. I am a person in recovery from using drugs (including alcohol), a person identified as MAD, and a person surrounded by ppl with current living experience or past lived experience of using drugs. This includes some of the closest people to me.

I have peer supported people navigating changing their relationship to substances for the last 15 years, and supported people who are friends and family of people who use drugs for the last four years.

This experience is at the root of most of the ways I organize, facilitate, and create.

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We are the ones that need to change

I am convinced at this time (and I may certainly be proven wrong) that the most essential change that needs to happen is in us as individuals, in our biases, ideas, and relationships. I focus on peer to peer support, and small intimate groups. I stay grassroots and independent. Because at the end of the day, when we talk about ppl who use drugs, we are talking about our parents, partners, children, neighbours, friends and co-workers.

I do not believe that our main focus should be on asking government to change policies, but on how we in our day to day lives actively uphold oppressive and carceral structures that keep ppl who use drugs vulnerable.

The most miraculous changes and systems of unconditional support I have seen are led and for people of lived experience, unpaid, grassroots, non-hierarchical, and radical.

But for ppl without the specific lived experience, there are many ways into the work, because the work is intersectional. This means that people with multiple forms of marginalization experience exponentially more violence: more than just those same experiences in separate individuals.

This means that the work of anti-racism, decolonization, anti-capitalism, disability justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, and environmental justice ALL must be linked with drug user liberation, and with each other. If not, it won’t be liberation at all.

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True Harm Reduction is Anti-Oppressive

Harm reduction comes from Black, world Indigenous, Trans, poor communities who need to care for each other because the state has abandoned them. Without that, harm reduction becomes co-opted and whitewashed. Racism and discrimination exist amongst drug users too and statistics prove that Black and Indigenous people in so-called Canada and US are more likely to die of overdose or drug poisoning.

This means that if we want to solve the drug crisis, it will require dismantling systemic racism, colonialism, and capitalism.

We will need to let go of our own old beliefs, de-center ourselves, and be willing to sacrifice. We will need to reclaim our humanity, which we lost, and remain separated from the longer we ignore those suffering. We will need to relearn the skills of community care, conflict transformation, accountability and repair, and true mutual aid that were torn from us.

If you, or anyone you know wants to learn more about this work, peer to peer or in small groups, send me an email to see if we could be a good fit. I work with people who are truly dedicated to changing their day to day lives, who want to embody the changes they wish to see in the world.

I hope you’ll join me in this work.

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