- Apr 2024
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www.vera.org www.vera.org
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Violence interrupters and neighborhood change agents
Very fascinated with this
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violence interrupters
reminds me of how programs can get co-opted. I can see how this may go wrong
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The void left by cigarettes has been filled by a new synthetic cannabinoid market. Spice,
Reminds me of the dynamics of drug busts
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Many COs switched to chewing tobacco
Reminds me of the dynamics of drug busts
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- Mar 2024
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opensystem.substack.com opensystem.substack.com
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Who gets to know what?
This is triggering a thought: my mind is drawing a parallel between the gross fascination that (particularly cis, straight people) have with trans-peoples' genitals. That invasion of privacy and perverse interest in others' private information is very telling and gross
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Our partners are allowed to have their own boundaries around STIs, and it’s on us to decide if those boundaries make for relationships that work for us.
And the thing about this is that you should not take this one step further by then passing judgement. You jsut make a decision for yourself and then move along
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internet taught us that boundaries are good
Sensationalization of boundaries... relates to cancel culture
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“threat” moves in only one direction
hmmmm.... relates to our discussion on Moral individualism of neolibralism
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buzzword life cycle in which words become shells of themselves
Relatable to "harm reduction" and "plant-based"
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How homelessness is an industry. Employing many to fill their pockets but not doing anything to help the homeless.”
Commodifying the suffering of others
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It’s a neoliberal narrative that people’s inability to get a job or to get housing is an individual failing. It reinforces the idea that it’s people’s fault they’re in a tent in a park.”
Thoughts on this
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cost savings are also not the point
This is so essential to recognize
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We let people in but eventually [we assume] they’re going to stop [using drugs] because we expect it
Relates to humans' propensity to impose their own morals on other. This can be helpful when it protects, the general public from harm but also becomes a threat to personal autonomy when people are discriminated against or oppressed, related to their own choices that only affect them.
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programs leave residents alone until they attract negative attention
This approach lacks pro-active and open communication
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People who want to see Housing First succeed have every reason to consider why its well-documented successes have not substantially limited the homelessness crisis.
People who are saying Housing First does not work, are unfairly concluding that it does not work... there is no accounting for potential confounders such as simply an increase in houselessness.
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operating on a Housing First basis doesn’t mean that it really works that way.
Reminds me of the co-opting of HR convo we had earlier in the semester.
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- Sep 2023
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www.science.org www.science.org
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The immediate, obvious damage is wasted NIH funding and wasted thinking in the field because people are using these results as a starting point for their own experiments.
Lesné was producing research that was not reproducible which ultimately is a bad thing because: "[see highlighted quote]"
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