Shayla Schlossenberg
@SSchlossenberg
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Sex worker rights + harm redux tips. 我会说汉语。MSc SocAnth, Drugs Service Coordinator at Release (they/them/ theirs)
London, England
Joined October 2018
🧵: Let 2024 be the year for reviving deeper solidarity between drug user and sex worker movements. We have lots to gain and share between us: we both know that criminalization hurts our health and everyone’s health
Some extra love for the Harm Reduction Hub from our Drugs Coordinator @SSchlossenberg Sex work and drug user activism is so interlinked - we need a safe space for all of us to organise and mobilise. More submissions on why a hub is needed coming soon 🛸
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Our parent org, @Release_drugs got banned on instagram. We're trying to get it reinstated, and we need your help! Here are some instructions on reporting missing accounts, which can help raise our cause to Meta. Please help if you have an IG acct ⤵️ https://t.co/7fZnqoSgE1
Release insta got deleted!! Please, if you are on instagram go make a report to the tune of “Harm reduction charity account wrongfully removed - the account promotes harm reduction and thus mentions drugs, but it does not promote drug use. See https://t.co/irMJ7bgohH for more”
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Release insta got deleted!! Please, if you are on instagram go make a report to the tune of “Harm reduction charity account wrongfully removed - the account promotes harm reduction and thus mentions drugs, but it does not promote drug use. See https://t.co/irMJ7bgohH for more”
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Donate to the People’s Letters (formerly the Scarlett Letters) booksellers hardship fund. The way the workers have been treated is awful, simply because they asked for fixed hours and fair conditions. If you want to support the workers, put ur £ here:
crowdfunder.co.uk
Support The Scarlett Letters staff fighting for job security, dignity and respect.
On Tuesday (1st July) I was one of the workers sleeping here, while we occupied peacefully - all we demanded was that the stock be donated to us so that it could continue serving the community, as CIC assets legally must. Instead a group forced entry at 4am to take it.
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For those panicking about the purported oxycodone pills found in flour bags in Gaza— Here is some basic education on illicit drug markets that might help. 1. By definition, you cannot become addicted to OxyContin, or oxycodone after taking it once. Period. The definition of
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We spoke with more than 150 people today - almost entirely local - overwhelmingly in support of getting a local overdose prevention site Happy #SupportDontPunish day of action 🥹 @SDPcampaign PS Twitter has a 10 acct tag limit so very sorry if you weren’t tagged!
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The director of The Scarlett Letters has chosen to announce the shop will be closing - meaning all ten of the workers, one of whom has a baby on the way, are losing their jobs. If you can afford to donate to the hardship fund, it would be greatly appreciated.
All booksellers at The Scarlett Letters were already at risk of having their shifts cut and effectively fired - now they have been told that some of them WILL be made redundant. If you are able to contribute to the hardship fund to support them, please do. https://t.co/6CbOZ78Jqx
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Sharing here from Instagram as I know there are many folks who are getting the news here about Peter - solidarity with all holding hard feelings alone rn
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Testing, testing - are people still on here? (I’ve got hub news to update on soon but wondering if it is worth posting here much or focusing on other platforms) Either way - I’m now on bluesky (very late)… https://t.co/DM6HIVtg1c is me
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🚨PAPER RELEASE - LINK BELOW🚨 We present our third academic paper, a dive into the now-shuttered Compassion Club and Fulfillment Centre. What once stood as a safe haven, offering dignity and hope in a society bent on punishment, has been crushed under legal pressures and
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Decriminalization laws can protect human rights for sex workers by removing structural barriers that perpetuate violence and violence against sex workers from both state and individual actors. #EndGBV #16DaysAgainstGBV #SexWorkisWork
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#SWEP has just been activated in #London Tonight offers us all an amazing opportunity for @MayorofLondon & councils to get everyone in! Conveniently there is also a #homelesscount tonight organised in EVERY London borough 👀 Everyone counted MUST be offered shelter! Simple🤞
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If the law won't allow us to save lives, it needs to be changed - Martin @TransformDrugs I'm proud to have got Niamh, Shayla & Martin time at the #London Drug Forum to talk about drug consumption rooms & housing. Lots to follow up on!
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A great reminder that, as nitazenes are here to stay, services need to adapt to this reality: people will be using them intentionally at times, and we need to understand its effects, duration and more. Straight from our Drugs team in @DDNMagazine
https://t.co/hShLwv7Ikm
viewer.joomag.com
Twenty years ago I was sitting in our little office in London, typing my first editorial (p20). ‘This issue we catch up with Caroline Flint at the Home Office, who shares some interesting thoughts on...
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Huge thanks to @SSchlossenberg, Elise Grehan @Project6 and @dannyahmed76 for an informative panel discussion at the Stitching for Change event in Manchester yesterday. The audience thought the panel were brilliant and thought provoking. @CriminologyUoM @uomsoss
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I am concerned to see that this very dangerous newer version nitazene (n-pyrrolidino isotonitazene or isotonitazepyne) has also been found since 7/8/2024 in pills bought as oxycodone, sent to @WEDINOSProject for testing by people across the UK. Take great care.
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About to present on @safe_pipe at #LxAddictions24. If there, come to Auditorium VII to hear about the power of crack pipe provision capacitating recognition, innovative homemade pipes & respiration risks, & the lunacy of UK paraphernalia law! @Release_drugs
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A CALL TO ACTION; thank you A B Charitable Trust, for inviting me to a room full of funders & foundations. To speak about decolonizing funding, reparations & reimagining wealth. @phf_uk @Baring_Found @SRausingTrust @Global4Children @BellRibeiroAddy @LankellyChase
#Change
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Reducing drug-related overdoses saves lives & saves money, but how can we prevent these upstream? 1 way is by free, non judgmental #drugchecking & wraparound #harmreduction support services, direct to PWUD. Drug-related deaths have risen by record numbers
theconversation.com
Deaths from cocaine use have risen by almost 31%, according to ONS figures that also show stark regional differences in drug-related deaths.
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