Deconstructing Immigrant Binaries
To truly provide justice for those with criminal records, we must question harmful binaries that separate “good” from “bad” immigrants.
5 posts in ‘harm reduction’
To truly provide justice for those with criminal records, we must question harmful binaries that separate “good” from “bad” immigrants.
Community-based gun violence prevention is at a crossroads. A group in Chicago shows how abolition may hold the key to its future.
Criminalizing pain medicine has led patients to despair while the carceral state forces their medical decisions. But it has also opened avenues for solidarity between pain sufferers and incarcerated people.
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
Criminalization of so-called drug-induced homicides is yet another manifestation of the failed war on drugs — and far from an adequate public health response.