LINGERING

<p>Our fourteenth SDUK broadsheet, <strong><em>LINGERING</em></strong>, follows and complements <em>WISH YOU WERE HERE, WISH HERE WAS BETTER</em>, a mobile public event series presented by the Blackwood that made space “for people impacted by the ongoing overdose crisis—and its cascading systemic issues of precarity, houselessness, and criminalization—to mourn, while providing opportunities to imagine and work towards a more just future.” Throughout this broadsheet, contributors <em>linger</em> with these sociopolitical issues, among others. They navigate complex emotions like grief, joy, and mourning while developing vital forms of activism; celebrating disability and queerness; shaping institutions; or finding poetry in everyday life.</p> <p>But how do we “work towards a more just future”? <strong>What kinds of methods and practices are necessary to navigate across difference?</strong> A contribution from the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective roots their own approach in inquiry—sharing ponderous, critical, and rhetorical questions that explore consent practices. Fady Shanouda, nancy viva davis halifax, and Karen Yoshida employ a methodology of listening and recording—oral history—in their emerging archive of disabled Canadian art practices. For Craig Jennex, the queer nightclub and dance floor serve as potent collective spaces, shaped by desire and longing.</p> <p>This issue’s focus on the overdose crisis prompts reflections on drug policy within and beyond Canada. <strong>How does the overdose crisis provoke urgent resistance to the longstanding war on drugs?</strong> Matthew Bonn writes of the varied strategies employed by people affected by the crisis, led by people who use drugs and mothers of individuals lost to overdose. Tamara Oyola-Santiago chronicles the mobile harm reduction practices of Puerto Rican activists in New York City, while Jeffrey Ansloos and Karl Gardner reflect on the misuses of harm reduction that obfuscate its radical roots, while echoing the call for police abolition…</p>