Caty Simon

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Please help us continue the work we do like this, especially paying both staff and base membership, for work that grants will not support. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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2/...when none of our bilingual members who do this work are professional translators, but members of our affected community. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/We're thinking of further alliances we can have with language justice organizations who can teach us new things and checking in with our translator cohort on how we can create the best translation environment...
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Translation is becoming more reciprocal. Everything in Spanish is also translated to English, reducing isolation of solely Spanish speaking members. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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We are trying to ensure all our programming is fully English/Spanish bilingual, so instead of having one translator from among our ranks who becomes exhausted, we are picking two translators who can spell each other. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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Finally, we did OD reversal trainings again last Friday, and while it was slightly more intimate---18 participants---we are slowly changing our practices to align more with language justice. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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2/...how we can keep adjusting until there are more patients who trust enough in their care to stay, knowing they will not be experiencing withdrawal pain throughout. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/ I was able to speak w/fellow panelist Dr. Bill Soares on successes + challenges WCIIA has encountered in partnership with Baystate ED , on hospital methadone/bupe induction, what happens when systems meet hospital workplace reality...https://www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway

Panel explores addiction harm reduction strategies - Greenfield Recorder At a Harm Reduction Summit at Greenfield Community College, health care professionals, addiction specialists and people with lived experience discussed strategies to reduce the negative consequences a...

The panel was entitled From Crisis to Connection: Strategic Harm Reduction Across Systems, meant to represent spectrum within hr--I was proud to represent more grassroots hr orgs by/for affected PWUD populations in that space. recorder.com/2025/10/27/h... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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Oh, and I forgot one last get-together---I spoke at a panel at the Franklin County Opioid Task Force's 2025 Harm Reduction Summit: Building Bridges Between Care, Policy, and Community. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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In the past we valued quality + depth over quantity in alliance + relationship building, and while we're still protectionist in certain ways, we're now looking to broaden our collaborations in ways which still keep us safe as marginalized sex workers. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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One thing Whose Corner knows is that we are in a new phase of movement building as an organization. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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One organizer really impressed me when she said sth like " 'unity' and 'solidarity' are beautiful words, but how do we actually accomplish this? www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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2/ ...on how we can unite and base build during these frightening times, without ignoring either the very real victories against fascism that have occurred in recent years elsewhere and also the very real difficulties we must face in coming together. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

1/It was a rousing weekend day in which I had a rare opportunity to network and learn from people in anti-racism, education justice, immigration justice, trans justice, youth justice, housing justice, and other movements...https://www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway

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Shortly before that, though, I was able to attend a cross movement event repping Whose Corner---the 2025 grantee gathering for the Haymarket People's Fund and other funds in alliance with them. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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I also attended #Reform25, going to NSU's pre-convening where we remembered international leader + beloved friend Louise Vincent + strategized for this era, + I spoke in two panels. Thanks to all our leaders @national-nsu.bsky.social . www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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Not only did our subc member Madeline travel, our program manager Naomi was able to attend a confidential cross movement convening which gave her many new ideas and connections. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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Madeline exhorted: "[American drug] policy is so old school and needs to come into this generation." www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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3/It's especially important for sworkers when it's difficult for our movement to have our own conferences because of SESTA/FOSTA (RIP Desiree Alliance Conference etc.) (I'm showing my age). www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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2/ ...It's a conversion and rejuvenation experience for so many people who have only worked in harm redux and drug users' movements in their own regions before. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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1/ This is what gives such a huge boost to harm reduction and drug users' movements and why it was so important that 70% of the #Reform25's attendees this year were attending for the first time. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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She was staggered by the sheer size of the movement and all the people that were there at the conference, and she felt it was beautiful to meet people she'd only met virtually before. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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"Everyone was very helpful and caring, and everyone helped out," Madeline said of disability accommodations---the sworker house was the largest house and the one with the most disabled union members. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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This year, she was apprahensive, scared of the reporting on TSA and flight control conditions, and almost decided to cancel many times, but ultimately, she's glad she didn't. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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I interviewed Madeline on the experience of going to #Reform25 and she had a lot to say, a lot that emphasized how important disability justice is as a value, both in
@national-nsu.bsky.social and Whose Corner. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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2/...showing us who she was as a sex worker, a drug user, an organizer, and a powerful leader. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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1/ Madeline shared her experiences as a trans Puerto Rican/French Jewish woman w/us at the @national-nsu.bsky.social sworker call, her experiences w/financial exploitation from her own trans elders... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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She would even provide guides for other marginalized people unprompted on tech skills as she learned them, like, "how to fill out and sign a W9 on a mobile phone." www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

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She facilitated national sworker call meetings and created promotional fliers for them---that last, a skill she eventually brought to Whose Corner as well, along with general TA for WCIIA projects. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...