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Picture taken in Elspeth’s emptied out office in the Mian Quad, usyd, December 2024. I found it such a sad but telling moment. She’s sitting reading in front of what looks like a computer but is actually a woodcut art print. She was so frail then but as ever, so dam industrious! I miss her terribly

My obituary for the late Elspeth Probyn, Professor Emeritus of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney humanities.org.au/our-communit...

Don’t tell Sussan! #unknownpleasures

Don’t lose control homos

Diagnose my ass!

I mean honestly

#pathologizeeverything

Reagan’s toxic 1980s blend of neoconservatism and neoliberalism, aka illiberal family values, aka a murderously moralised biopolitics #tylenol #drugs #familyvalues #reproductivehealthmatters

This is the same political trope, incidentally, as Foetal Alcohol Sydrome and also the 1980s crack war panic over crack babies which, alongside AIDS and the demonisation of Welfare Queens, were ideologically instrumental in the institution of the New Right

by constructing it as a disaster that is preventable through women’s moral choices around drug use (ie tylenol).

Among the many dangerous aspects of a the Trump-Kennedy announcements about #Tylenol during pregnancy - not least its disregard of scientifc evidence - one of the most interesting ive heard is that it effectively disparages the validity of autism as a way of being in the world (neurodivergently)

And that all people living with HIV have equally proactive access to the antiretroviral therapies they need for their lives to continue using that same mode of delivery #injectables or daily oral @unaids.org

Post #PEPFAR, DEMAND injectable #Lenacapavir is proactively made easily accessible to all members of key populations affected by #HiV - gay & other men who have sex with men, transgender & other women, people who inject drugs, migrants & incarcerated peoples -‘GLOBALLY. NOW.

I’m not going to make it through customs am I

Can anyone recommend approachable readings for undergrads that do a good, no nonsense job of discussing the gender policing effects of binary restroom laws etc? In the vein of arguments such as these

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Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...

Please sign this - the world is a mess wnd it will only get worse if people wrent taugjt history openpetition.org/!repealjrg

The Spirit of Elspeth ~ my tribute to Elspeth Probyn delivered at her wake in Sydney, April 2025 🌸

Thanks so much Ashley

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

& it was awesome

Amazing turnout at the opening of our workshop on "Queer Pharma", which is about to begin with a keynote speech by @kanerace.bsky.social on "Queer Psychoactivity: Switching Frameworks", at the Schwules Museum in Berlin tonight!
@mxschnepf.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

To resist the violence of the current gender situation in the UK, real feminists should now all be going into men’s restrooms, identifying as trans women. #occupythegents

Back Australian Thinking — Australian Academy of the Humanities' 2025 Election Statement – Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian electorate, by and large, “backs Australian made” when it comes to manufacturing and innovation. But modern social and cultural challenges don’t receive the same profile. We call on the...

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the man in charge of the biggest government health budget on earth is blaming aids deaths on poppers

Meanwhile USA placing millions of people living with hiv around the world on a compulsory treatment holiday

Entertained yet?

Make America Dilate Again

Dear Europe, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and countries in South/East Asia and the Middle East, please get your act together to join forces & counter Trump, Putin & Netanyahu’s outrageous flouting/demolition of international law and order 😩

Trump & Musk.take on Condoms for Hamas. There’s a headliner I never anticipated: The sum they claim this fantasized USAID Initiative cost would buy a BULLION frangers. This beggars analysis #condomstohamas

Does criticising Trump’s stated desire to annexe Gaza count as antisemitism yet?

#MUSKsterious

préparation sur le sujet, mais si ça vous intéresse et que vous lisez l’anglais il y a un excellent livre sur le sujet, « Pleasure Consuming Medicin, The Queer Politics of Drugs » de @kanerace.bsky.social

Can you spare a minute to help Amanda Wise? 84 signatures are still needed! Defend Academic Freedom – Stand with Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Australian academics please sign and share

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Is a university degree still worth it? The pay premium for graduates is on the decline, while the sector is a mess and academics are asking whether we have reached “peak university”.

Nailed it #highered #managerialism

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