folklore zine
a harm reductionists guide to better care
Want to be published in the next issue of Folklore? Submit a Proposal for Issue #3!
Who We Are
This zine was developed by a group of frontline harm reduction workers, researchers, and volunteers working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, on the stolen lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səlílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth), Stó:lō, and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations.
Our vision is to create a space where frontline harm reduction workers across the globe can share their specialized knowledge, stories, experiences, resources, and expertise. Policy, procedure, and research language does not generally capture the voices of this community, in which decades of harm reduction expertise is passed on through storytelling, relationships, and lived experience.
We aim to make this work more sustainable by sharing resources and stories more widely and by uplifting and centering voices that have been silenced, exploited, or rendered invisible. By making this information more easily accessible, we are working towards a more just and caring world, where communities are united in mutual care and understanding. Through this zine we hope to connect harm reduction workers focused on subversive knowledge-sharing, resisting oppression within the war on drugs, and distributing power and dignity more fairly amongst our communities.
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Submissions
We are accepting submissions for forthcoming issues. If you have a story, advice, expertise, tips, lifehacks, reflections ——anything at all——to share about your experiences responding to/preventing overdose, we want to hear from you.
Email us a couple sentences telling us what you're thinking, and we'll pay you to develop your piece for print.
If you're not sure what to write about, keep in mind that this zine is largely for you—your stories, in your words. It's a place to share your experiences in harm reduction work of all kinds: the good and the bad, the healing and the unjust.
We will print your stories in your own words with minimal editing (unless you want that). The only limitation we will place on your piece is that we will not print attacks on people's appearance, race, gender, ability, religion or sexual orientation. Otherwise, it's all you.
e-mail: hello@folklorezine.com
Folklore declares solidarity with oppressed peoples globally. We are committed to upholding the values of equity, kindness, love, justice, lived experience, democracy, autonomy, dignity, self-determination, and pluralism. We reject exploitation, misogyny, colonialism, racism, ableism, elitism, scientism, civil obedience, and professionalism.
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