NEW RESOURCE: GRIEVING OVERDOSE ZINE

The Harm Reduction community observes International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31 each year. This year, The DOPE Project worked with artist Gaia Wxyz to create a single-page zine as an act of care for a community that experiences too much preventable loss. You can read the zine below, print, and fold your own at home on 8.5" by 11" paper and distribute them to friends, family, program participants, and direct service workers in your community.

Content Warning: This is a zine about death, overdose, grief, and drugs. 

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About the Artist: Gaia WXYZ @gaiaw.xyz (pronounced “wize”) is a multimedia creator who specializes in visual art, specifically comics.  Last year they earned an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts, and appeared in the award-winning documentary No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics. They write & draw autobiographical comics about being Black and gender non-conforming.  Art has been the major motivating force in their life, concocting characters and storylines in sketchbooks from an early age. Though they have skills in a variety of media, including printmaking, painting, design, sculpture, photography, installation and performance art, Gaia has focused their talent to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a published comic artist.

With love,

The DOPE Team