"The book is at once a subtle, outrageous, energetic and kaleidoscopic look at queerness, with Sycamore’s trademark energy and high literary style." Thank you for this gorgeous conversation in Xtra Magazine!!🌺🌺🌺

At some point, when all this is settled, I would like the BC public to hold this person to account for her disinformation and the community harm it has wreaked. Well done @brishti.bsky.social getting more for the public record.

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

"[C]o-founders of the Drug User Liberation Front compassion club, Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, were found guilty." "To support DULF’s Charter challenge, consider donating to them": www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati... #BritishColumbia #Canada #Courts #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing

update on the dulf case despite the judge recognizing the political theatre that led to the DULF arrests, the court has found them guilty they still have a charter challenge & im optimistic they'll win there #harmreduction #drugsky #cdnpoli

📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣 But WAIT! Not so fast… drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...

> Read about how DULF's co-founders discussed their compassion club with the VPD. VPD reps offered their support for the project. Then the VPD abruptly raided the compassion club and arrested its co-founders: thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

pay attention to the framing of what constitutes "political violence" and what's just considered "normal" violence, or isn't considered violent at all

One lawyer reviews an online application... That's all it takes to apprehend and hold someone for 72 hours??? Dangerous and unjust. People will absolutely end up in the emergency department in complex withdrawal.

" #Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead." #abpoli #ableg #abhealth #UCPcorruption #measles

Near record of 105 samples analyzed yesterday at both Get Your Drugs Tested sites! All paid for by our cannabis and shroom sales with zero government funding! getyourdrugstested.com

"Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia’s credibility. Often, the problem with AI-generated summaries is that they contain mistakes, the result of AI “hallucinations.”"

completely missed that the largest darknet market went down last week i know lots of folks who use darknet markets to obtain a non-fentanyl opioid supply - this will definitely have impacts on people's safety, especially given the continual ratcheting of safer opioids in canada #drugsky

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif? 'Hard mode' (no star wars, star trek, lord of the rings or marvel)

This week, millions across the US are under a sweltering heat dome. Heat waves are especially deadly for incarcerated people, as prisons are not equipped to handle these environmental emergencies – which will only get worse because of climate change.

Honey, look what just arrived in my apartment!! Yes, the galleys for TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11th from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, get ready!!!!💜💖🌹👠💥⚡

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

So we did a thing. On Being Infectious. Presented at the #QueerPharmaConference held at the Freie Universität Berlin We spoke about the generative possibilities of HIV infection and its aesthetic (re)modulations. With @alexmcclelland.bsky.social

Why is the federal government still refusing to decriminalize HIV? #HIVISNOTACRIME xtramagazine.com/health/hiv-d... @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social @xtramagazine.com @hivjustice.net

Pride month is a corporate marketing scam, now we are subjected to endless vapidity to buy buy buy into a community that is a sham. Of course, we can create communal possibility, but it will never be behind the sweatshop-produced rainbow flag or target-marketed Pride parades. Let's get creative.

Advocates, legal experts, and community leaders from Zimbabwe worked together to repeal the criminalisation of HIV and to stop a new law that threatened to reintroduce #HIV criminalisation. Don’t miss the key lessons for other countries seeking to end HIV criminalisation. youtu.be/L8B9s56yR4M?...

I do not care if Canada post is ever profitable. It is a public service, everyone owns it. That’s valuable in and of itself. We don’t ask the emergency room or public schools to turn a profit. We ask them to be accessible for everyone to use.

Samuel L. Jackson and 'The Fix' are right: ensuring people have meaning, social interaction, and access to what they need are the first steps to addressing the root causes of addiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsN...

yes, you should. #SafeSupply

“The current evidence does not support that the benefits of involuntary treatment outweigh the risks and costs. In addition, there are questions around medical ethics, human rights, social justice, the role of lawyers as gatekeepers to care and potential harms.” #ableg #abpoli #CareIsNotForced

The political economy of platformed silos: Theorizing data storage reconfigurations in the age of interoperability capitalism by @matthewarcher.bsky.social, Louis Ravn & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social in Big Data & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

good read on the possible reasons for the drop in deaths in NA & how crackdowns might lead to a rise, featuring @nabarund.bsky.social I'd add a 4th option, people's tolerances are much higher now & they've adapted to the drug supply (also maybe fewer new users accessing the ultrapotent supply)

Solid lessons which I'm resposting for myself as we need more beyond asking students to write everything by hand ... which is not a real plan for many

How are 1,000 housing units and 1,000 shelter spaces going to help the estimated 80,000 people who experienced homelessness in Ontario in 2024, now set to be deeply criminalized by the Province? news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Apparently, I love nothing more than writing a 12-page letter back to the ethics office to detail their misunderstanding of a qualitative researcher's legal obligations re: confidentially protection.

Also, just stop using Google.

So think about the really unreliable tabloids and web publications — Zero Hedge, the Daily Mail, Epoch Times, that set. What makes them unreliable isn’t that they’re always wrong, it’s that they go to great lengths to make it impossible to fact check them, and to phrase their slanders ambiguously.

Decriminalize homelessness.

Ottawa, come to see me chat about my book with some great people tomorrow night at Irene's Pub #HIVISNOTACRIME carleton.ca/fpga/cu-even...

🧵 I feel compelled to respond to Minister Williams’ attempt to discredit and silence my dissent in his interview with @ctheriault.bsky.social, to whom I am grateful for allowing me to speak to the UCP’s forced abstinence act and for defending my right to do so. 1/ podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

See you today in Montreal xx

Threats of prosecution for #HIV non-disclosure create fear, abuse, and silence. Support HIV policies that prioritise human rights and public health. 💡 Learn how HIV criminalisation affects human rights on academy.hivjustice.net

prohibitioning since 1908

Book Launch April 16, Montreal: Digital News & HIV Criminalization by Colin Hastingsn with a panel discussion on activist research with Martin French (Concordia University), Alexander McClelland (Carleton University), Jayne Malenfant (McGill University), and André Capretti (HIV Legal Network).

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Cops are not "popular culture" but sure

If you're in Ottawa on Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm come out to Irene's pub for a conversation about my book Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence #HIVisNotACrime carleton.ca/fpga/cu-even...

HIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project, from Chad Clarke & Colin Johnson blog.catie.ca/2025/04/02/h... ##HIVISNOTACRIME

Please check this out if you have a chance!

Check out my review of @gkinsman.bsky.social's The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles, Revised Third Edition from @concordiapress.bsky.social in my favourite, The Anarchist Review of Books (winter issue: www.anarchistreviewofbooks.org)

A constitutional challenge being heard today, brought forward by @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and two individual Applicants, will determine whether a number of life-saving supervised consumption sites in the province can continue to operate past the end of this month.