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Paulina Guerrero

Paulina Guerrero moved to Bloomington in 2011 to go to graduate school for folklore. She hails from Washington, D.C., and is still an East Coaster at heart. She has a secret past life crashing on NYC couches and creating raucous street theater. Although she misses being close to the ocean, she is quietly becoming more infatuated with the Midwest day by day.

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Night Moves, Bloomington’s only strip club, faces a changing city, full of misperceptions, contradictions, and challenges. | Photo by Natasha Komoda

Will the Show Go On? Strip Club Faces a Changing City

Paulina Guerrero, Natasha Komoda

Night Moves, Bloomington’s only strip club, faces a changing city. Writer Paulina Guerrero looks into the misperceptions, contradictions, and challenges faced by not only the longtime establishment but also its dancers — and by the sex work industry in general. Click here to read the full story.

December 27, 2016

A handful of social-service organizations in southern Indiana, including Bloomington's Indiana Recovery Alliance (IRA), are using harm reduction in response to the current drug epidemic to try to reshape the way people think about addiction, drugs, risk, and community health. | Photo by Natasha Komoda

Harm Reduction: A Challenging New Approach to the Drug Scourge

Paulina Guerrero, Natasha Komoda

The drug-addiction epidemic in southern Indiana has defeated almost every effort people have tried to address the problem. But writer Paulina Guerrero looks into how some groups, such as the Indiana Recovery Alliance, are finding that a new method, called harm reduction, often has better results than the decades-old war on drugs. Click here to read the full story.