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Atticus Hawk is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada. His dissertation Orientations of Trans-Crip Labour: Networks of Care and Harm Reduction Practices in Toronto’s Queer Disabled Community will be completed in mid-summer 2025. Focused on disability justice, archival science, and health equity, Atticus has led multiple accessibility mapping projects, co-founded a community archive for queer elders, and presented multiple guest lectures for healthcare and information science students on informed consent, client-provider logic models, culturally competent care, and responding to the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in helping professions. Passionate about harm reduction and information science, he designed and taught the first graduate class in North America on harm reduction specifically tailored to information science students in January 2025. Outside the academy, Atticus provides free healthcare system navigation services and home-based medical support for people with complex care needs. Atticus plans to attend medical school to train as a family doctor for unhoused folks.
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Naloxone Now! Canadian Librarians Save Lives

by Atticus Hawk, Nadia Caidi April 28, 2025 0

Nearly 50% of library workers in Canada have responded to an opioid overdose at work, while only half of library workers who had responded to a suspected overdose... Read more.