Resisting Plague: Combatting Covid through Harm Reduction and Recovery Practices - Ep. 10

Resisting covid resists colonial, capitalist violence. Resisting covid honors the trans and queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, disabled, immunocompromised, drug using, s3x worker, HIV+ ancestors who did everything so we can live. According to the World Health Organization, 7 million people have died from covid since the start of the pandemic, and nearly 780 million covid cases have been reported across the globe since the start of the pandemic. With so many covid cases, hundreds of millions of us have been put at risk of developing long covid, which can lead to brain damage, increased risk of heart attacks, including among young people, and increased risk of becoming immunocompromised.  In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) outlines how the government and collective pressure to bypass covid has played out. They offer space for us to process and grieve what this pandemic has cost us, and offer harm reduction and recovery practices around people pleasing, perfectionism, and boundary setting to help us resist this mass disabling, mass unaliving event. Carolyn highlights the lineages of Indigenous genocide from plague, and the lineages of harm reduction stemming from the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s to call us to resist this plague in honor of our ancestors. 00:00 - Intro 02:17 - government gaslighting around covid’s impact  16:26 - grieving what we’ve lost with the covid19 pandemic  18:12 - why should we care about covid in 2025 and beyond 22:45 - taking covid precautions to honor our ancestors and resist systemic oppression 29:24 - grieving what we’ve lost to covid 34:17 - how to use harm reduction to navigate life in pandemic times  56:00 - recovery principles to help resist covid 01:14:00 - covid precautions as ancestral veneration 01:33:23 - how do we resist covid systemically  Subscribe to our ⁠Patreon⁠ $3 from everyone viewing would help make this work sustainable! ⁠⁠⁠http://patreon.com/recoveryfortherevolution⁠⁠⁠ Purchase the ⁠Recovering Under Racial Capitalism Journal ebook⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://recovery-for-the-revolution.ck.page/products/recovering-under-racial-capi⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support the Shaheen family in 🍉 https://chuffed.org/project/hodafund Book a ⁠1:1 Decolonizing Recovery Coaching Session with Me⁠  ⁠⁠⁠https://calendly.com/recoveryfortherevolution/decolonizing-recovery-coaching⁠⁠⁠ Sign up for the Unsettling Recovery waitlist ⁠⁠ https://forms.gle/wNVG1KJu4PdZw4zU7