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 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.

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 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.

VIEW THE EXHIBITION →
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.