Black Feminist Geographies Of Harm Reduction: Race, Space & The Embodied Consequences Of Drug Use In Southern Ontario, Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorDe Lisio, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorHassan, Lensa Said
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T10:42:43Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T10:42:43Z
dc.date.copyright2024-08-23
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.date.updated2025-04-10T10:42:42Z
dc.degree.disciplineKinesiology & Health Science
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractWith the dramatic rise in overdose deaths, harm reduction strategies are urgently needed. Limited studies centre Black women and gender-diverse people (BWGDP) and their critical insights regarding harm reduction and drug-related care. This is especially important because in Canada drug criminalization repeatedly and disproportionately subject BWGDP to heightened violence. Using Southern Ontario as a research site, I examine the impact of the current policies and legislation that inform harm reduction services in relation to the unique and complex realities of BWDGP. This research is theoretically informed by the work of Black Feminist Geographies and involved the careful analysis relevant policies, semi-structured interview, and photo data to understand the living geographies of harm reduction and embodied resistance practices of BWGDP who use drugs. I argue for solutions to the state-funded harm reduction strategies that target the systems and sources of violence, in lieu of the bodies that stand in place.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42753
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsHarm reduction
dc.subject.keywordsBlack geography
dc.subject.keywordsGeography
dc.subject.keywordsDrug decriminalization
dc.subject.keywordsPeople who use drugs
dc.subject.keywordsDrug law
dc.subject.keywordsRace
dc.subject.keywordsBlack women
dc.subject.keywordsBlack gender-diverse people
dc.subject.keywordsSouthern Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsHealth justice
dc.subject.keywordsBlack feminist geography
dc.subject.keywordsDrug use
dc.subject.keywordsState violence
dc.subject.keywordsAbolitionist geography
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian drug law
dc.subject.keywordsCanada drug law
dc.subject.keywordsSociology
dc.subject.keywordsHealth sciences
dc.subject.keywordsBlack people who use drugs
dc.titleBlack Feminist Geographies Of Harm Reduction: Race, Space & The Embodied Consequences Of Drug Use In Southern Ontario, Canada
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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