10/02/2026
Love is the Drug y’all 💗🌟
This year the film Love is the Drug is being shown at the Santa Cruz Film Festival! Love is the Drug tells the story of Heather Edney’s harm reduction organizing- which began in Santa Cruz, California, while she was caring for MyLeia Loya, a child who was born HIV positive.
The film brings together a trove of archival materials: Edney’s appearances on television, photographs, zines, flyers, and community health education videos with more recent 16mm footage of Edney and Loya in Santa Cruz. The film will be shown along with the Diversity center’s film Never the Last Love Letter.
Link for tickets in bio- come out and learn a little about the history of harm reduction organizing in Santa Cruz.