๐จ๐ฆ Harm Reduction Worker in TO #PWUD #SafeSupplyAdvocate Aspiring Harm Reduction Nurse & Freelance Journalist E-Transfers ๐ [email protected]
Toronto, Ontario
Joined June 2021
- Tweets1.4K
- Following282
- Followers181
- Likes1.4K
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
I am queer. I am trans. I am also homeless.
Why was my supposed community protesting outside of the resources and spaces that help me on Saturday?
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
โWe are seeing a perfect storm. A housing crisis because we are failing on housing as a human right, people without health insurance unable to access health care, and now a humanitarian crisis playing out at 129 Peter. It is unconscionable.โ @drandrewb
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
I know the urge to reply to every absurd thing on social media is a chemical addiction but people (blue check RW reactionaries /fascists) now have an actual monetary incentive. Your replies & quote tweets are making them more $ from one tweet than I make in a year. DO NOT ENGAGE.
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
As evidence on safer opioid supply (#SOS) programs is evolving, we put together a rapid review of publications that describe the clinical outcome of SOS programs #SaferSupply
odprn.ca/wp-content/uploads/โฆ
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
Non-binary people are real. They have always been here. They are not confused. They know who they are. With so much hatred and misunderstanding of what it means to be non-binary, a day like this is more important than ever. #representationmatters #yyc #queervoices
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
The @YWCAToronto tagline: "We believe in a radical transformation of society where all women, girls & gender diverse people can thrive."
Adding: "Unless you're disabled in which case we deny you equal access or the right to have food/medications delivered to your unit 01/04
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
The grocery rebate has come and gone. Didn't even buy groceries with it. Had to use the whole thing to play catch up. Still not caught up.๐
People with disabilities relying on provincial and federal support can't keep living like this.
Stop making PWD suffer in poverty.
#DERB
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
When I was homeless, sleeping in shop doorways & overdosing regularly I didn't need "addiction" treatment or coerced into "abstinence recovery" which by the way nearly killed me, I needed housing, community, a job.
Social norms that are restricted from PWUD due to prohibition.
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
I want to see firearm regulations requiring weapons to only be stored at licensed ranges.
You can transport w/ a permit & also special permit for farmers/occupations who need them on site. Other than that, you have absolutely no need to have them in your home.
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
What we learned over the last weeks with the conservative party of Canadaโs theatrics. Is that majority of people in Canada do not support the ramping up of the drug war and forced treatment. The public understand the issues and the evidence.
Safe supply = Saves Lives
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
Fact-based, evidence-based, real world-based. There seems to be a coordinated attack on safe supply, from the omission-heavy Vancouver Is Dying doc, to the more recent version Pierre tweeted, to that very questionable piece in the NP. (xitter.gq/JesseBrown/status/1659โฆ) Very ugly stuff.
โThe increased politicization of this as an issue, with a complete lack of nuance to the discussion, is doing everyone a huge disservice.โ
On the politicization of safer supply, with @ianabailey:
theglobeandmail.com/politicsโฆ
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
A huge thank-you to @Diana_C_McNally for putting together this resource for our neighbours in shelters, encampments, or who are couch-surfing.
If you're unhoused, you can vote in the upcoming mayoral election on June 26!
Want to learn more? Here is a handy flyer you can print and share: tinyurl.com/UnhousedVoteTO.
In short: you don't need a fixed address or ID to vote; just let them know this at the polls on E-Day!
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
Weโre still learning what the ultimate toll of Torontoโs housing crisis will be โ on the streets, and in the absence of thousands who have moved away.
#Opinion by @thekeenanwire
trib.al/ry5eC85
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
Itโs amazing, after years of referring to myself as an โaddictโ and then realizing the effect it had on my self-esteem, I now have such a visceral reaction when other people use it to describe people. I canโt help myself but to correct them every time. Language matters.
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
FACT: When ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ was Toronto's Police Chief, the Ontario Human Rights Commission released an ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฃ ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ค๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐๐.
CBC, Dec 10, 2018: bitly.ws/CZSE
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
So much ignorance in society.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
๐งตFor 8 years, John Tory gradually and methodically robbed people of the will to even hope for a better city. Like a bad corporate manager, he told us we should feel lucky just to be here. He told us not to get carried away with ideas that wouldnโt benefit his friends. #TOpoli
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
I was personally unsettled by the presence of Caryma's boyfriend today. If there is such a thing as aggressively filming, that is what he was doing. Tried to move in closer a few times. Who films a memorial service for unhoused ppl for no discernible reason? It is just ... creepy โ at Toronto, Ontario
Natalie - Harm Reduction, Peer Support Worker retweeted
Punch up, not down.
Worried about housing? healthcare? climate? public education? decent jobs?
Trust me, it's not immigrants or refugees stealing or eroding any of it. Anti-migrant racism pits communities who are otherwise in joint struggle against austerity and displacement.
