Media + Culture
Watch: A Visually Stunning Chemsex Support Campaign
A Spanish HIV/AIDS organization has launched a colorful video campaign meditating on queer men’s ...
Ten Photos From 2020 That Reflect 2021’s Biggest Challenges
Few years in living memory have been as dramatic and distressing as 2020, and ...
What It’s Like to Be “Out” as a Person Who Uses Heroin
In May 2019 Louise Vincent, executive director of the Urban Survivors Union, urged privileged ...
Reason to Raise a Glass: The Alcohol-Zero-Tolerance Project Is Doomed
The World Health Organization has declared that there is no safe level of drinking—a ...
How Artists Are Reimagining the Overdose Crisis
Last year, I volunteered at a harm reduction center where fights and cold sweats ...
Watch: How Unhoused, HIV+ Queer People Resisted NYC Gentrification in the ’90s
As New York City Mayor Rudolph Guliani’s gentrifying assault on the gay West Village ...
My Psychedelic Love Story: An Interview With Filmmaker Errol Morris
On the surface, Joanna Harcourt-Smith had the kind of life many people dream of. ...
“I Can’t Be Friends With You Anymore”—How Stigma Isolates Young Drug Users
One of the last memories I have of hanging out with my friend Jana ...
So We’re Drinking Our Way Through the Pandemic? It’s What Drugs Are For.
People are drinking (and using marijuana) more during the pandemic. Alarms have predictably been ...
The “Date-Rape Drug” Narrative Has Been Weaponized Against GHB Users
Wait…” my therapist reacted during our weekly FaceTime session. I had just mentioned my ...
