Shira Hassan

Shira Hassan, organizer blending transformative justice, harm reduction, and collective liberation, and editor of Saving Our Own Lives. She talks about reclaiming harm reduction from public health. She explores centering marginalized care architects and defining liberatory practices. She connects harm reduction to abolition and describes community strategies that keep people safe outside carceral systems.

Author Shira Hassan discusses liberatory harm reduction and collective liberation, emphasizing the importance of marginalized communities in building systems of change and support outside societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation, with a focus on true body autonomy and self-determination.