Late fundraising again for Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our W MA #harmredux/#mutualaid group by/for sworkers+trafficking survivors who use drugs/experience housing insecurity-as Giving Tuesday comes, where we try to center groups that don't crowdfund thru the yr. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

This is going to be a lean month for many—please help us continue to provide food, harm reduction and wound care distro, outreach, + low-threshold employment for current & former sworkers & trafficking survivors who use drugs/ experience housing insecurity like us! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

This is @liberatemethadone.bsky.social -PWLLE, researchers, clinicians, & those who claim more than 1 contributing skillsets, creating this magic elixir of an article which is a heartfelt salvo vs. the Drug War and a rigorous commentary. Honored to be co-author. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Many positive examples as well, such as doulas taking the time to sing and tell stories, doctors keeping confidentiality as sacred trust & speaking respectfully to patients, & drs taking into account patients’ own hypotheses re why they were sick. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

4/4 ...and being labeled as drug seeking even when you specifically state you are not looking for medication, etc. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

3/...? hearing derogatory language about yourself under health worker’s breaths or having staff intend to speak about you in a negative light behind your back immediately lowering your trust in the care... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

2/...the immediate change in stigma manifesting once past drug use is clear thru a chart or track marks, even if the person is abstinent now–up to changing the person’s treatment plan because now they are recognized as person who uses drugs. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/...? Themes that come up again and again: the importance of confidentiality, the experiences of pregnant and parenting drug using people/ppl in the sex trades... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Many really replicable + actionable positive & negative examples there of healthcare worker behavior-some of it stuff most ppl don’t think about, like food security in hospital for ppl living in chaotic poverty. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We're also doing writing funded by RIZE Massachusetts, continuing anti-medical stigma work w/Baystate Medical Center ED’s health equity team. Last Fri I helped w/that as well. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We need to be able to balance ppl's need for self-disclosure with their simultaneously self-expressed need for emotional health. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Some of our members even proactively + justifiably express their boundaries in the writing focus groups, writing simply, “I don’t want to talk about that” in response to questions. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

2/2...ppl's families may have hurt them or they've had what should be day-to-day, unremarkable experiences marred by chaotic poverty. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/2 I have to figure out ways to give out the age-old advice on “show, don’t tell” in a trauma-informed way, since so many experiences that are quotidian for most middle class people can involve traumatizing features for our members... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

I did my first office hours helping staff refine their writing for our writing project with 3d wave worker giving circle last month, drawing on my experience in Tits and Sass and Narcofeminism Storyshare doing peer editing. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We’ve also been broadening our low-threshold employment model so there’s more opportunity for low-threshold work for base membership & not just directly impacted staff, and people have been killing it! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

It’s vital for ppl to know the process even if they can’t physically do it themselves—they can walk someone else through it! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Some ppl simply can’t do what the task requires, so they move organically into a coaching role. We teach OD reversal isn’t just the reversal itself—it’s crowd control, coaching & support, & coordinating info between people. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We're a v. disabled population–a lot of ppl w/mobility impairments, asthma, pregnant people etc.–so we need to discuss how to navigate moving people, getting them on the ground, + into the rescue position, not to mention rescue breathing. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We’ve done this material 3 times now, so now some base members are also coaching other members! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We're working really successfully on OD reversal training, where staff train base members in overdose reversal using our demo dummies. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

As November 1st approaches with households prob. not receiving SNAP benefits, the resources we provide our poor community will be all the more critical, so we hope you can help us with donations for services and expenditures that our grants don’t cover. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Incredibly late w/fundraising as usual for our harm redux org by/for low-income sworking + trafficking surviving cis & trans women & non-binary ppl who use drugs and/or experience housing insecurity, Whose Corner Is It Anyway. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Incredibly late w/fundraising as usual for our harm redux org by/for low-income sworking + trafficking surviving cis & trans women & non-binary ppl who use drugs and/or experience housing insecurity, Whose Corner Is It Anyway. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/2 As a methadone patient, I spend accumulated months of my life taking PROMS-patient reported outcome measures. Honored to be a co-author w/Jarratt Pytell + others of this writeup of a review of opioid use disorder treatment PROMS. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#EndDemandIsAntiEquity #ListenToSexWorkers #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Tonight, 8/14, at 9 pm et, National Survivors Union’s methadone reform call! We’re still working on our patient bill of rights project, which has proven very popular--sharing patient's inviolable rights in accessible language. Meeting info: us06web.zoom.us/j/8380767076...

SERIOUSLY.

I am like a child too excited telling you about all the things we're doing that I cannot pause to breathe, so I will end here for now. Please continue to help us make 5k for the end of the month, or even 2 k! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

...but I think we played a small part in changing eligibility requirements so they are more in line with what people are actually doing outside major urban centers, and we'll reschedule with them soon! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Finally, researchers from Yale in our small study with them couldn't come this Friday b/c one had a migraine… www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

And as we write/are transcribed on this + we finish our collab w/@rougesupportnw on diverse topics, I'll b offering office hours this fall to help people get at what they want to say for final products-zines, posters, guidance for doctors in quotes, etc... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We've had so many focus groups and brainstorming sessions on this but there's still more trauma to unspool... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

...it has shown us what it will do to our dying loved ones as we are powerless to advocate for them, b/c we have the stain on us too. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

...on drawing out accounts of medical stigma, procedural stigma, anticipated stigma b/c the medical system has told our entire community what it will do to people who use drugs, sex workers, gender diverse people, disabled people, women.... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

For our RIZE grant, we've had a lot of ideation conversations with our Baystate Medical Center ED health equity partners... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

This Friday, our staff taught base membership OD reversal---none of these mannequins would perish on our watch! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Then one of our Baystate ED partner's med students came to help us roll Chore, a rite of passage for a Whose Corner ally when we like you enough to let you in. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

He also introduced our low-tech, low-concept selves to the idea of risk mapping. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

He's from another movement but he certainly had lots for us to think about when it came to protecting ourselves as marginalized people in this new landscape--info perhaps more valuable than any donation he's ever given us. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

The haps: The Friday before last our staff and me had an eyeopening consultation with an immigration lawyer who's donated to us generously in the past... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Please continue to help us on what our funders often don't see as allowable costs except under special circumstances, cash payments for our mostly unbanked staff/leaders. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

SECURITY CULTURE CONSULTATION, OD REVIVAL TRAININGS, BROAD MEDICAL STIGMA PROJECT, CATY OFFICE HOURS FOR FOCUS GROUP PIECES, HELP US DO AAAAALL THE THINGS.... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Give to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our Western Mass harm redux, advocacy, and mutual aid group by/for low income sworking + trafficking surviving women and gender diverse ppl who use drugs and/or experience housing insecurity. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Give to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our Western Mass harm redux, advocacy, and mutual aid group by/for low income sworking + trafficking surviving women and gender diverse ppl who use drugs and/or experience housing insecurity. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

And finally, you asked it for it for years and you GOT it---there's now an option on GoFundMe to give a recurring donation monthly! Please use it widely for us, friends--and thanks to those who've already taken advantage of it. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

More exciting updates planned for you next time---in the meantime, please help us make 2-5k so that we can continue to pay our unbanked staff/staff with benefits which can't be risked. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

We are so reviled by society in the usual scheme of things that often, it's often hard for us to see them---thank you, RIZE and ICH! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn... !

One thing the reporting has given us is making our achievements, often unnoticed by us, visible *to us* so we can feel the pride we deserve to feel as directly impacted people running this small organization. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

A special shoutout especially to Emily Hahn from ICH, who has given us so much TA in crafting reporting that's meaningful for us. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...