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For the Gworls (International) Asanni Armon, courtesy of For the Gworls If you haven’t already heard of this Brooklyn-based mutual aid fund, then you’ll be thrilled to learn about it now. Created by Asanni Armon, a black genderqueer artist from Atlanta, Georgia and currently based in New York, For the Gworls provides funds to Black transgender people internationally to help with rent, costs related to healthcare, and the cost of gender-affirming surgery. This project began in 2019 when Armon decided to host a roof party to fundraise for two friends who were facing eviction. Since then, ...
A new partnership between the Grey Bruce Health Unit and the REACH Centre Grey Bruce has formed to produce safe drug use kits. The REACH Centre provid...
The Grey Bruce region continues to see a number of overdoses as a result of opioids. The health unit says they received reports of six overdoses between last Thursday (20th) and this past Sunday. That prompted the health unit to issue an alert on Sunday and at least three more overdoses have been reported since then. None of them resulted in fatalities but there have been ten reported deaths connected to opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil. The health unit says they don’t believe the opioid epidemic will go down anytime soon. They say the Grey Bruce Harm Reduction Team are continuing t...