Happy New Year! 🎀 I’ve just submitted my responses to the ACMD’s Drug use in LGBT+ communities and chemsex: call for evidence. It’s a really important opportunity to make sure lived experience and community insight are properly reflected. For those interested, a quick deadline reminder: 30 January 😊

What a lovely time I had last week at the Digital Intimacies, Young People and Everyday Life International Conference at the University of Padova 🇮🇹 where I had the chance to present a paper about the preliminary findings of my PhD research! @digitprin.bsky.social

What a privilege to present at the 7th Contemporary Drug Problems Conference in Manchester today about Guillaume Dustan! It was such a thrilling week where I also got to present some of my PhD’s preliminary findings at Monday’s satellite event—the Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body socio-legal seminar!

So proud to receive the Award for Best PhD Presentation in the Law School at @northumbriauni.bsky.social Northumbria Business & Law Research Conference 2025 for my presentation “Queering sexual consent law: Understanding intoxication and capacity in chemsex”, and a conference support fund of £150! 🏆

It was truly a pleasure and an honour to receive the Inclusivity Award at the Shine Awards 2025 w/ my team Arianna Castro, Ellie Clyne, and Richard Hogg, co-chairing @northumbriauni.bsky.social’s True Colours Network. Absolutely thrilled and grateful beyond words for the recognition of our hard work

Thanks so much to @nagingtonuom.bsky.social for involving me in the online launch of his book, The Moral Lessons of Chemsex (Open Access content is available at this link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/978103...), where I got to discuss Chapter 6. Such a great event and talk! 🤗

What a delight to present at @northumbriauni.bsky.social Northumbria University’s Business & Law Conference this year about my paper derived from my PhD research on chemsex and consent between queer men in England and Wales 👀 @nulawandsociety.bsky.social

What a fantastic day at this year’s @northumbriauni.bsky.social Northumbria University-wide PGR Conference, where I got to expose my research poster! Fantastic workshops and a fabulous programme!! 🤩

EU friends – please take a moment to sign this European Citizens’ Initiative to ban conversion "therapy" in the European Union 🌈🇪🇺🙏 eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Happened to be in MCR today – proudly and loudly supporting trans+ lives at the Trans Rights protest! “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty” “You can’t regulate our hearts” “Let us piss!” “Trans people have always existed and will continue to exist regardless of legal definitions.” 🏳️‍⚧️✊️

As always, the same media and political tropes of moral/sex panic... "We’ve got to protect the youth from chemsex"; "It’s expanding amongst heterosexuals" – Where’s the outcry about "protecting" GBQ+ men from a (so-called) "dangerous societal scourge"? france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-fra...

Have published my first blogpost today thanks to You Are Loved & Marc, diving into my personal experience and take on queerness, chemsex, drugs, and consent – related to my own PhD research study. Feeling a little bit nervous but excited for everyone to read it 🤯 www.youare-loved.com/post/let-s-t...

Research Opp: Help shape the legal understanding of consent in chemsex environments. Are you a man who has sex with men with chemsex experience? Help inform legal research by taking part in this PhD study at Northumbria University by Vincent Gaillard Details in the pic.

Had a lovely time on @myprideradio.bsky.social tonight talking about my research on chemsex & consent! Special thanks to Steven for having me on his show :)

Looking forward to hearing @vincentgaillard.bsky.social on @myprideradio.bsky.social 7-9pm GMT, he will be talking about #chemsex and consent - you can tune in HERE: prideradio.co.uk/new_radio_pl...

I will be on @myprideradio.bsky.social tomorrow to talk about my research – listen on 89.2FM & DAB in the NE and online worldwide! Catch me up on Dr Steven’s surgery from 7pm to 9pm, where we’ll be discussing all things chemsex & consent. Thanks so much @peterdarrant.bsky.social for the opportunity!

So proud and grateful for local North East cultural magazine @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social to feature my participant recruitment poster in their February’s edition! Don’t forget to check out this month’s queer listings, pages 58-59 😉 This is cool. Thanks so much for the support!! 🤩

30,000 steps and a PhD talk with the SSSH! research group later, my poster tubes and I are leaving Leeds, the first stop of my England and Wales tour—I am displaying participant recruitment posters all over the country for my research this week! Next stop: London 🤠 Thrilling already!! 🚂

First snow of the year in Newcastle!! 🤩❄️