Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction

by Shira Hassan

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

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I read this to help my friend with her movie. It is not written for me (a person with familiarity with harm reduction) but definitely for gen zers who need to know how we did things without the internet and how we have to do them without the internet again.

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