De Lisio, AmandaHassan, Lensa Said2025-04-102025-04-102024-08-232025-04-10https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42753With 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.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Electronic Thesis or Dissertation2025-04-10Harm reductionBlack geographyGeographyDrug decriminalizationPeople who use drugsDrug lawRaceBlack womenBlack gender-diverse peopleSouthern OntarioHealth justiceBlack feminist geographyDrug useState violenceAbolitionist geographyCanadian drug lawCanada drug lawSociologyHealth sciencesBlack people who use drugs