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Caty Simon

@marginalutilite.bsky.social

Ex-lumpenprole,ruthless editrix,tedious dilettante, community researcher,mediocre organizer.National Survivors Union/NC Survivors Union/Whose Corner Is It Anyway/Yale School of Medicine--give to gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway

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23.07.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

We've only gotten about forty to fifty bucks since I started fundraising---any help or promotion would be appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

22.07.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

I am like a child too excited telling you about all the things we're doing that I cannot pause to breathe, so I will end here for now. Please continue to help us make 5k for the end of the month, or even 2 k! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

...but I think we played a small part in changing eligibility requirements so they are more in line with what people are actually doing outside major urban centers, and we'll reschedule with them soon! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Finally, researchers from Yale in our small study with them couldn't come this Friday b/c one had a migraine… www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

And as we write/are transcribed on this + we finish our collab w/@rougesupportnw on diverse topics, I'll b offering office hours this fall to help people get at what they want to say for final products-zines, posters, guidance for doctors in quotes, etc... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

We've had so many focus groups and brainstorming sessions on this but there's still more trauma to unspool... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

...it has shown us what it will do to our dying loved ones as we are powerless to advocate for them, b/c we have the stain on us too. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

...on drawing out accounts of medical stigma, procedural stigma, anticipated stigma b/c the medical system has told our entire community what it will do to people who use drugs, sex workers, gender diverse people, disabled people, women.... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

For our RIZE grant, we've had a lot of ideation conversations with our Baystate Medical Center ED health equity partners... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

This Friday, our staff taught base membership OD reversal---none of these mannequins would perish on our watch! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Then one of our Baystate ED partner's med students came to help us roll Chore, a rite of passage for a Whose Corner ally when we like you enough to let you in. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

He also introduced our low-tech, low-concept selves to the idea of risk mapping. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

He's from another movement but he certainly had lots for us to think about when it came to protecting ourselves as marginalized people in this new landscape--info perhaps more valuable than any donation he's ever given us. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

The haps: The Friday before last our staff and me had an eyeopening consultation with an immigration lawyer who's donated to us generously in the past... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Please continue to help us on what our funders often don't see as allowable costs except under special circumstances, cash payments for our mostly unbanked staff/leaders. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

SECURITY CULTURE CONSULTATION, OD REVIVAL TRAININGS, BROAD MEDICAL STIGMA PROJECT, CATY OFFICE HOURS FOR FOCUS GROUP PIECES, HELP US DO AAAAALL THE THINGS.... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Give to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, our Western Mass harm redux, advocacy, and mutual aid group by/for low income sworking + trafficking surviving women and gender diverse ppl who use drugs and/or experience housing insecurity. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

I am like a child too excited telling you about all the things we're doing that I cannot pause to breathe, so I will end here for now. Please continue to help us make 5k for the end of the month, or even 2 k! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

...but I think we played a small part in changing eligibility requirements so they are more in line with what people are actually doing outside major urban centers, and we'll reschedule with them soon! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Finally, researchers from Yale in our small study with them couldn't come this Friday b/c one had a migraine… www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, researchers from Yale in our small study with them couldn't come this Friday b/c one had a migraine…https://www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway

21.07.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

And as we write/are transcribed on this + we finish our collab w/@rougesupportnw on diverse topics, I'll b offering office hours this fall to help people get at what they want to say for final products-zines, posters, guidance for doctors in quotes, etc... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

We've had so many focus groups and brainstorming sessions on this but there's still more trauma to unspool... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

...it has shown us what it will do to our dying loved ones as we are powerless to advocate for them, b/c we have the stain on us too. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

...on drawing out accounts of medical stigma, procedural stigma, anticipated stigma b/c the medical system has told our entire community what it will do to people who use drugs, sex workers, gender diverse people, disabled people, women.... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

For our RIZE grant, we've had a lot of ideation conversations with our Baystate Medical Center ED health equity partners... www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

This Friday, our staff taught base membership OD reversal---none of these mannequins would perish on our watch! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Then one of our Baystate ED partner's med students came to help us roll Chore, a rite of passage for a Whose Corner ally when we like you enough to let you in. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

He also introduced our low-tech, low-concept selves to the idea of risk mapping. www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

21.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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