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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · 18d

Posting this again, on the anniversary of my dad's death from an accidental overdose.

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What My Dad Taught Me about Grief, Art and What Makes a Life | The Tyee

He died of an accidental drug overdose. It changed how I perceive the world.

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · 21d

My most recent Substack.

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Some Things I Made as the Weather was Changing

Process / Processing

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Jun 19

“We now suffer the moral distress of being medical experts in this field who are essentially forced to be handmaidens to a government policy that will cause more death. And not just death in the abstract — death of people we personally know and have cared for for years.”

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When Politicians Play Doctor, People Die | The Tyee

BC’s new rules on prescribed substitutes for toxic drugs open a dangerous door.

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

Macleans asked me if they could use the photos and I said no, so they hired an illustrator.

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

My most recent Substack explains the overdose awareness poster that was part of my photography exhibition in Vancouver in March, and explains how you can get one if you'd like to have one: jackiedives.substack.com/p/overdose-a...

Overdose Awareness Poster

An hommage to Felix Gonzales-Torres

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello! I have launched a fun thing! It's called Postcard Club and if you sign up I will send you a postcard of one of my photos every month. It's $5/month for the first 25 people and then $7/month for everyone else (+$1 for a international shipping).

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Postcard Club

Sign up before the 15th to get the current month's postcard. Members will receive a postcard printed with a new photograph every month, plus a short note on the back with some context about the photog...

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 4

Typo! It‘s $2 for international shipping.

Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello! I have launched a fun thing! It's called Postcard Club and if you sign up I will send you a postcard of one of my photos every month. It's $5/month for the first 25 people and then $7/month for everyone else (+$1 for a international shipping).

postcardclub.jackiedives.com/products/pri...

Postcard Club

Sign up before the 15th to get the current month's postcard. Members will receive a postcard printed with a new photograph every month, plus a short note on the back with some context about the photog...

postcardclub.jackiedives.com

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

My most recent Substack explains the overdose awareness poster that was part of my photography exhibition in Vancouver in March, and explains how you can get one if you'd like to have one: jackiedives.substack.com/p/overdose-a...

Overdose Awareness Poster

An hommage to Felix Gonzales-Torres

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yeah, they changed it after I hired a lawyer.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · Sep 3

International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs.

DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction

Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser:
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Wage Solidarity: Fight the War on Drugs

Every August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together around the world to take action on preventable overdose deaths and the legislated violence of drug policy. On August 31, We...

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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · Sep 3

This happens too often.

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 3

Macleans asked me if they could use the photos and I said no, so they hired an illustrator.

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 2

They asked me to use the images and I said no, so they hired an illustrator.

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · Sep 2

A long overdue admission from Maclean's.

Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · Jul 17

The Narwhal is suing the RCMP for unlawfully arresting a photojournalist, Amber Bracken, for doing her job in Wetʼsuwetʼen. Canadian taxpayers are funding the RCMP's legal defence; our non-profit newsroom relies on reader support to uphold freedom of the press. More in the thread 👇

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Jul 17

Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal, flew to Vancouver in April, took a glass elevator up a glimmering skyscraper and entered a boardroom full of lawyers. There she was grilled, for hours, about details of The Narwhal’s press freedom lawsuit against the RCMP.

A sign on a brown door reads "Room 426 - The Narwhal News Society v. Attorney General"

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Students in Grade 9 and younger will not be allowed to read about puberty, menstruation and breastfeeding."

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Alberta bans sexually explicit books in schools, limits who reads about kissing, hugging | CBC News

Alberta's education minister says sexually explicit content must be gone from school library shelves as of Oct. 1, but says the announcement is not about book banning.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · Jun 23

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

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Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Jun 19

“We now suffer the moral distress of being medical experts in this field who are essentially forced to be handmaidens to a government policy that will cause more death. And not just death in the abstract — death of people we personally know and have cared for for years.”

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

When Politicians Play Doctor, People Die | The Tyee

BC’s new rules on prescribed substitutes for toxic drugs open a dangerous door.

thetyee.ca

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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · Jun 18

"It can be easy to forget, but many of the rights we have – including access to safe abortion, needle exchange, birth control, women’s right to vote, and the end of segregation – are the direct result of civil disobedience."

Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Mar 28

I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com about my experience photographing the toxic drug supply crisis and the people I love who continue to fight for evidence-based solutions.

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