Media + Culture
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 ...
New York Times Breonna Taylor Piece Embraces Drug-War Narratives
Remarkably, a recent 6,000-word New York Times investigative article about Breonna Taylor doesn’t mention ...
“This Is Ohio”—Economic Pain and Harm Reduction in the Rust Belt
Jack Shuler watched the overdose crisis take a heavy toll on his hometown of ...
Cages Don’t Always Have Bars: How “Reforms” Swelled the Carceral State
Place Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law together on a street corner in an impoverished ...
“I Can’t Breathe”—The Haunting Urgency of Juice WRLD’s Post-OD Album
Since the December 8, 2019 fatal overdose of Jarad Higgins—a Black rapper who went ...
