Seminar

Taking harm reduction as an expansive and diverse set of practices and principles, this seminar brings together theorists and practitioners to address harm reduction’s role in minimizing the risk of lethal or dangerous drug use and sexual activity, imagining abolition, and unmaking the correctional logics inherent in systems of criminalization, carcerality, and racism. Launching the final semester of the Correction* Seminar Series, this conversation unpacks practices of harm reduction that challenge structures of power and how they can prompt collective liberation through the care for our own and each other’s bodies. 

The conversation features Imani Mason Jordan, interdisciplinary writer, artist, editor and curator, and is moderated by co-convener Tamara Oyola-Santiago, Director of Wellness and Health Promotion at Student Health Services at The New School. This seminar is organized by Camila Palomino, VLC Curatorial Assistant and builds on Correction* Seminar 3: Correcting Mistaken Ideas: Revisiting the People’s Program at Lincoln Hospital with acupuncturist Walter Bosque as part of a series of events on the theme of harm reduction, as practice and policy, convened between The New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Student Health Services. 

A second part to the program hosted on campus by Student Health Services will be announced later this spring.