Alex Dymock

Team Dubus and Dymock on sex and psychedelics again! A slightly juicier version of our Medical Humanities article for @chacruna.bsky.social chacruna.net/the-future-o...

Nice write up! So sorry to have missed

Palestinian Scholarship

We are pleased to announce 5 new #Palestinian Scholarships at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social this autumn. It is open to Palestinian students, and priority will be given to those residents in the #WestBank, #Gaza or one of the #PalestinianRefugeeCamps. More information at www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Harsh but fair

I think it’s just really technical! No amount of education changes the fact you have to train yourself to think in law’s terms and practice thinking with it a lot - there are no shortcuts. Not alone though - took me longer to get my head around constructive trusts than it did finer points of Lacan…

A real thrill to be at my brilliant friend @tanyaserisier.bsky.social’s very moving inaugural lecture this eve, surveying two decades of her incredible, groundbreaking work on the narrative politics of surviving sexual violence

@alexdymock.bsky.social has guest curated an exhibition for the Museum of Sex in NYC drawing on her research. The exhibition draws on hidden histories to illustrate how our 21st century understanding of sex is shaped by the "altered states" brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances.

I swear we had this conversation in the office years ago! I am anti-nice, naturally.

Henri Michaux’s mescaline drawings at the Courtauld until June

courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

From our friends at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Centre for Feminist Research & the Topology Research Unit:

PAULINE BLACK – A 2-TONE STORY
🎥 Screening + Q&A with The Selecter frontwoman

📅 12 Feb 5.30pm, Richard Hoggart Building

🎟️ Just a few free tickets left: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pauline-bl...

Ah, thank you!! As I hope you saw in the Acknowledgements we were very grateful for truly helpful, productive reviews on this one. :)

New sex and psychedelics piece out now in Medical Humanities! mh.bmj.com/content/medh...

Co-authored with wonderful
@zoedubus.bsky.social, we address some controversies wrt sexuality in psychedelics spaces, and potential priorities for a burgeoning subfield that only seems likely to grow..

🔥The magazine Sex&Psychedelics is looking for contributions for their Volume 3 dedicated to ecosexuality.🔥
This can be in written form (essays, interviews, prose, poetry, autobiographical reflection, more or less 1000 words maximum) or visual artistic production.

The deadline for

It is so social strata specific and weird! In my corner of London motherville it seems to be all about the ‘o’ names: Juno, Bruno, Arlo, Cleo, Margot. And hundreds of kids called Otis.

It’s a party on the streets of Camberwell this evening

Space Agency: Automation, Autonomy, and Acid Astronautics

Brilliant new work from @helenhester.bsky.social

Also the material on Klines re drugs with implications for gender and sexuality and mothering is fascinating in context of development of assisted reproduction. I've been thinking a bit about how IVF hormone protocols work to 'maternalise' so will have to revisit!

Oh wow how did I miss?! "Today’s cyborg emerges instead from the intersection of recreational and productivity- enhancing psychoactives, corporate libertarianism, and space faring via public-private partnership – as well as from the counter-discourses responding to all of these." Love this!!!

For sure! Drop me a line when you get some time, a chat sounds great. I have some vague ideas I would love to be a bit less dormant about registers of hormonal intoxication, but have only got as far as an abstract for now

transitionalstates.com Chiara worked with a few artists doing work on universal access to hormones.

CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review magazine is seeking reviewers for seven sociologically rich new books on subjects ranging from psychedelic outlaws and critical thinking in the academy, to parental leave and class and the uses of poetry.

View the list and make a pitch!
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Felicitations to us! Wish we could celebrate this together in person!

📣 Release is recruiting a research lead for a new 4 yr project (Seriously thrilled about this).

Working with unhoused folks we want to explore how housing policies must be inclusive of people who use drugs.

www.release.org.uk/vacancy-rese...

Deadline 25 Nov (excited this is my first post here)

Just finished, much admired. On the contemporary politics of drug use and urban night life it’s 💥💥💥

Hello escapees! It’s nice to be with you all. Perhaps I will try posting on a social media channel again, an outrageous thought