Shayla Schlossenberg

Sex worker rights + harm redux tips. 我会说汉语。MSc SocAnth, Drugs Service Coordinator at Release (they/them/ theirs)

[Shayla Schlossenberg @SSchlossenberg]

🧵: Let 2024 be the year for reviving deeper solidarity between drug user and sex worker movements. We have lots to gain and share between us: we both know that criminalization hurts our health and everyone’s health

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Some extra love for the Harm Reduction Hub from our Drugs Coordinator @SSchlossenberg

Sex work and drug user activism is so interlinked - we need a safe space for all of us to organise and mobilise.

More submissions on why a hub is needed coming soon 🛸

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Our Christmas day hours at the Hub will 7-9pm on Thursday 25th December! ✨ Everyone welcome ✨

No RSVP required - just show up to 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA.

[email protected] / 020 7324 2989

Please spread the word!

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Reminder of our opening hours at the hub this week... 🎄

[Shayla Schlossenberg @SSchlossenberg]

@BrianReed1949 @DawnButlerBrent Brian - how is this making a mockery out of the 11th?

It’s a day founded in the US after two Black trans women were murdered in Massachusetts in the month of November in the 1990s - one of those women was Chanelle Pickett, who passed on 20/11 - hence the date of TDOR

[Streets Kitchen @streetskitchen]

🚨#SWEP has been activated today in #London 🥶

If you or you meet anyone today who needs assistance accessing SWEP in #Islington please direct them to our Solidarity Hub until 4 pm & we will refer them in

[Filter | harm reduction journalism @Filtermag_org]

"Drugs are not forbidden because they are dangerous, they are dangerous because they are forbidden,” said Peter Krykant, who "hit the global harm reduction scene with a bang," running unauthorized OPC from a van in Glasgow.

Ppl who knew him pay tribute:
https://t.co/vGBH8Qjw5e

[openDemocracy @openDemocracy]

As drug users, solidarity isn’t just important – it’s survival https://t.co/ebuWgSR9uO | read more ⤵️

[Harm Reduction International @HRInews]

Calling all #harmreduction practitioners & peer workers: @CoactTS’s one-day Safer Injecting training covers the latest in low-dead-space syringes, circulation systems, safer preparation & disposal. Sharpen your practice, reduce risk. https://t.co/zn6A8WUY2n

[Shayla Schlossenberg @SSchlossenberg]

Even better - if you subscribe to the newsletter, this will protect our ability to stay in touch for when Meta decides to purge harm reduction accounts again

https://t.co/bxFZAzsllt

[Shayla Schlossenberg @SSchlossenberg]

Yall - this platform is dying a death and so are most but… I’d be very grateful if in the interim you’d give the new @Release_drugs insta a follow after Meta obliterated the last one

https://t.co/opHVfIm21W

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Please help us spread the word and come say hi soon! We can't wait to share the new space with you

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

We are also both fundraising to support our expansion in 395 - On 22/11 @PeoplesLetters will be hosting a fun night of drag and music at Piehouse Co-op (SE8 5HD)

On 06/12 Release will be dancing the night away, 10 PM til late at VFD (N16 7XB)

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

You can come shop at TPL and get a peek  of the space any day of the week now, 11 am to 7 pm. From the 3rd of November, the Hub will  operate Mon-Thurs 2-5 pm and Saturday 4-7 pm.

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Follow us and visit our websites to learn more! On instagram, we are @/release_rugs and @/peoplesletters

Our websites are https://t.co/CmkvVpMdLW and https://t.co/GKUXJsjWuS

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

We are moving the Harm Reduction Hub here - expanding our naloxone & safer supplies distribution, legal support and the provision of a welcoming community space for all.

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Affordable space is scarce, but solidarity isn’t. This partnership grew from shared politics and community care.

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

We're joining forces and opening a shared space for harm reduction, radical literature and collective care, run by and for communities pushed to the margins: sex workers, queer & trans people, migrants, and people who use drugs.

[Release Drugs - @releasedrugs.bsky.social @Release_drugs]

Big news: Release × @PeoplesLetters (TPL) are joining forces at 395 Cambridge Heath Road

[TalkingDrugs @Talkingdrugs]

Our parent org, @Release_drugs got banned on instagram.

We're trying to get it reinstated, and we need your help! Here are some instructions on reporting missing accounts, which can help raise our cause to Meta.

Please help if you have an IG acct ⤵️

https://t.co/7fZnqoSgE1

[Shayla Schlossenberg @SSchlossenberg]

Release insta got deleted!! Please, if you are on instagram go make a report to the tune of “Harm reduction charity account wrongfully removed - the account promotes harm reduction and thus mentions drugs, but it does not promote drug use. See https://t.co/irMJ7bgohH for more”

[Shayla Schlossenberg @SSchlossenberg]

@judithyates1 I’ve just forwarded you the alert form March - it was police forensics that picked it up!