If you want to hear me talking about The Moral Lessons of Chemsex book check out my interview with Dr Dallas Bragg 👇 the book is open access too! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... open.spotify.com/episode/4cKz...

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

“Is drug-use stigma a breach of human rights law?: Insights from Australia” by Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear, & @carlatreloar.bsky.social (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy…what do you think? Is drug use stigma a breach of human rights law? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published in Contemporary Drug Problems - online first #drugs #queerstudies #criticaldrugstudies

**IMPORTANT** Macquarie Uni is proposing to cut Sociology entirely 11 of 14 staff may be made redundant, and student choice severely limited. After 60+ years, Sociology and Politics could vanish from MQ. 🖊️ Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... #SaveSociology #HigherEd #MQcuts

Recent article by TASA member Kiran Pienaar et al. Undoing Minority Stress: Rethinking Queer and Gender-Diverse Substance Use journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Plenary sessions showcasing "Real People, Real Action, Real Results" announced for the 15th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference happening this 6-8 August in Naarm (Melbourne). Register for #VH2025: www.hepatitis.org.au/registration...

Led by Emily Lenton, our new article examines how the process of producing medical records can be implicated in stigma. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

TASA 2025 General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! 🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...

Three (2 at Deakin & 1 at ECU) PhD scholarship opportunities are available as part of a new Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Youth Futures after Mobility The full details are available via a Word document available here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

For the second webinar in AIVL's 'You Can't Say That' series, we reflect on the historical exclusion of women who use drugs from traditional feminist spaces and advocacy. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BBIJeo6ERtSTiA78XDZ3sQ#/registration  #narcofeminism #humanrights

Only 20 days left! General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! 🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...

Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative: aivl.org.au/resources/re...

Love to see @outhistory have added Positive Images to their Bookshelf (outhistory.org/items/show/6...).

Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.

**JOB OPP** Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology (part-time) University of Sydney Apps close on April 27th For details, visit usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.

Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Led by Gemma Nourse, our new article examines stigma in healthcare as a biopolitical spatial-temporal phenomenon that shapes relationships between people, time, space and technologies of service provision. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great launch of Kate Seear's report about #humanrights & #drugpolicy. Insightful panel discussions with Ele Morrison @aivl.bsky.social, Nick Kent @HRV & Alejandra Zuluaga about the importance of including the voices of #PWUD in #drugpolicyreform decision-making. opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/rep...

My latest article published in The Sociological Review @sociologicalreview.bsky.social explores the relationship between gender, harm and fun in young women and gender diverse people’s experiences of alcohol and other drugs. A brief overview of the article is available: tinyurl.com/4bk22buk

“When people worry about women drinking I say, ‘Shouldn’t you be worried about men who take these actions?‘” – Ash, Australia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Kiran Pienaar and Fay Dennis @sociology-gold.bsky.social on male violence and a woman's right to experience pleasure. buff.ly/4hE0Qye

“Basically every safety protocol we have in place to protect against overdose, parents can't access”: Mothers who use unregulated drugs’ experiences of dual public health emergencies by Dr. Jade Boyd (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you someone who has used PrEP and at some point stopped taking it (temporarily or permanently)? My colleagues at ARCSHS, La Trobe are studying experiences of stopping/pausing PrEP use and are seeking interview participants. More detail and eligibility here: www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/work/...

“Trying drugs, and pursuing pleasure... is a feminist act." Judy Chang has led @inpud.bsky.social since 2017, and been at the forefront of the narcofeminist movement. As she prepares for a new role, she discusses achievements and challenges ahead with @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social: