Body Autonomy with Justice and Paula

The Psychedologist

The second ​episode of a two ​part series, with Justice Rivera and Paula Graciela Kahn of Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use!

In this conversation, Justice, who compiled the essays and stories that make up the book, and contributor Paula Graciela Kahn, go deep into topics such as substance use, colonization, bodily sovereignty, rites of passage, sex worker centered harm reduction, collectivity, and the importance of education to help shift paradigms.

Body Autonomy is coming out May 14, 2024 - you can preorder it from Synergetic Press here:

https://synergeticpress.com/catalog/body-autonomy-decolonizing-sex-work-drug-use/

Justice Rivera (she/they; ella/elle) is a writer, social justice consultant, harm reductionist, and pleasure activist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Justice’s professional and artistic work is grounded in principles of harm reduction, anti-oppression, and healing justice. Her expressions seek to deconstruct carceral and punishment-driven paradigms to race, gender, and bodily autonomy. Justice has worked to provide direct services, organizing leadership, and capacity building support to people in the sex trade, survivors of trafficking, and people who use drugs in Denver, Washington DC, Seattle, and nationally. She is now a Partner with Reframe Health and Justice Consulting. She is collectrix and co-author of Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use. When she isn’t working, Justice loves to travel, cook, volunteer, and play with her cat, friends, and family.

Paula Graciela Kahn (she/they) is a first-generation Mayan-Iberian-Ashkenazi Jewish community-based researcher, policy advocate, movement strategist, edu-tainer, facilitator, herbalist and healing arts practitioner. Paula's research investigates the roles of
psychoactive substances in pluri-cultural contexts for processes of historical memory, accountability, reparations,
reconciliation, transitional and transformative justice, demilitarization, disarmament and reintegration.

Links:

Pre-order Bodily Autonomy

Justice’s website
IG @‌justicerivera_writes
twitter @‌justice_writes

Paula’s website
IG @‌plurproductions