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Thoughts on an Anarchist Response to Hepatitis C and HIV
From: The Care We Dream Of
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Written 5 years ago, and updated for this book, the authors detail how anarchist principles of self-organizing were central for HIV positive and Hepatitis C persons accessing health care, and contrasts this with the capitalist organization of health care. They also address the intesectionality of the social determinants of health.
Contributors
Alexander McClelland
Alexander McClelland is a settler from Toronto/Tkaronto, Ontario. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University. His work focuses on the intersections of life, law, and disease, where he has developed collaborative writing and academic, activist, and artistic projects to address issues of criminalization, sexual autonomy, surveillance, drug liberation, and the construction of knowledge on HIV. He has been living with HIV since 1997. Zoë Dodd is a long-time harm reduction worker and advocate for drug user health and liberation living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She spent fifteen years cofacilitating Hepatitis C support groups that are rooted in popular education and harm reduction. She was instrumental in developing a community-based model of Hep C care that prioritizes people who use drugs. She is a vocal critic of government responses to the overdose crisis; an expert in overdose response, she helped to establish Ontario’s first overdose prevention site, Moss Park OPS, which ran illegally in a park for a year before receiving government funding. Zoë is a cofounder and co-organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. She is currently working as a community scholar focused on the harms of involuntary drug treatment. She is an abolitionist and anticapital ist and is strongly committed to dismantling the drug war and the settler-colonial state of so-called “Canada.” Alexander and Zoë have been friends and collaborators for over twenty years. They have produced numerous publications and have organized together for many years.
