HEATHER EDNEY

Harm reductionist, writer, archivist, and organizer.

More than three decades documenting, building, and shaping harm reduction in the United States.

EXHIBITION

LOVE RULES

MoMA PS1 · New York · 2025

Love Rules at MoMA PS1

Love Rules brought together materials from the harm reduction archive of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz, tracing histories of organizing, drug-user activism, AIDS, care, survival, and community.

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SELECTED WORK
JUNKPHOOD
Writing, ephemera, history, and harm reduction.
SKID ROVER
Harm reduction, outreach, documentation, and community work.
GETTING OFF RIGHT
A harm reduction manual for people who inject drugs.
WRITING + ARCHIVES
Essays, oral histories, photographs, ephemera, and works in progress.
ABOUT

Heather Edney has worked in harm reduction since the beginning of the U.S. movement.

She co-founded the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program and has spent more than three decades working across harm reduction, HIV, drug-user health, communications, program development, technical assistance, advocacy, and storytelling.