this joint delves into, among other things:

❤ A new framework I've been working on - RECOVERY JUSTICE!
❤ staying sober and practicing harm reduction during the pandemic and uprisings
❤ Rayshard Brooks and the unacceptable anti-Blackness embedded in drug enforcement
❤ the resilience of marginalized communities
❤ building my own personal recovery program and what that's been like to maintain so far
❤ accountability and recovery
❤️ the continuing work to hold radical healing spaces for Black queer and trans folks in recovery
❤ retooling recovery under the anxieties, trials, and tragedies of COVID
❤️ the elegance of harm reduction and the unearned hegemony of 12 step
❤ the history of substances as a tool of capitalism, colonialism, and slow genocide against black folks
❤️ the gaslighting of marginalized people’s around “outside issues”
❤️ finding and joining one of the only inpatient lgbt recovery programs in the country
❤ finding and then losing my first ever home group!