Adryan’s writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, Vice, Esquire, Playboy, Allure, them, Rolling Stone, Rewire, Leafly, and many more. Their work has appeared in print in Philadelphia Weekly, GRID Magazine, Omaha’s The Reader, and The New Territory. They often write about drugs and policing, but they’ve also written about breaking news, politics, arts and culture, incarceration, cannabis, opioids and other drugs, trauma and mental health. They are a columnist for Shadowproof, covering transgender incarceration.
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Policing and incarceration
- How the State, Prisons, and Guards Keep Books from Incarcerated People, Teen Vogue
- Trans Behind Bars: Homophobia Persists At Shakopee Prison After End To No-Touch Policy, Shadowproof
- Project Eject: What the Police-Led Gentrification of Mississippi Means for the Rest of Us, Playboy (PDF)
- How Nixon Established The War On Drugs As We Know It, Big Buds Magazine
- How to Support Incarcerated LGBTQ+ People This Pride Month, them
- 5 Transgender Women Who Have Fought Their Prisons From Behind Bars, them
Cannabis
- Weed in New Jersey: New Bills Focus on Legalization, Social Justice, Rolling Stone
- America’s War on Drugs Has Been Racist for a Century, Leafly
- In North Dakota, the Fight to Legalize Cannabis Heats Up, Leafly
- Women On Top: Women Of Color Reveal All About Working In The Cannabis Industry, Big Buds Magazine
- Marijuana in the 2018 Midterms: A State-by-State Guide, Teen Vogue
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions Terminated An Obama-Era Marijuana Policy, Teen Vogue
Opioids
- Could Supervised Consumption Sites Help Fight The Overdose Epidemic?, MTV News
- How Cannabis Is Helping Pull Patients Out Of Opioid Addiction, Big Buds Magazine
- Federal Government Uses ‘Crack House’ Statute in Attack on Overdose Prevention Sites, Rewire News
- Everything You Need to Know About Heroin Overdoses, Teen Vogue
Mental health
- The Trials and Trauma of Flying While Transgender, Truth Out (co-authored)
- How Trauma Affects Queer and Trans Youth, Teen Vogue
- How Trauma Impacts Your Body, Teen Vogue
- Can’t Afford Therapy? Here Are 4 Actions You Can Take to Get Support, Mic
Sleep
- I Have Narcolepsy, and It’s Nothing Like What You See in Movies, Mic
- How to Tell If You Have a Sleep Disorder, Teen Vogue
- How to Fall Asleep, British Vogue
Resistance
- Demonstrators Occupy ICE Building in Philadelphia Amid Police Brutality, Rewire.News
- Everything You Should Know About Karl Marx, Teen Vogue
- International Women’s Day Began as a Strike, HelloGiggles
- How Students Are Using Harm Reduction to Fight the Drug War, MTV News
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