Gary Hammond

Raising a glass at the news that Duesberg died and in memory of those who died as a result of his hiv denialist bullshit.

3.

Tis the season to be...

"Your HIV status is covered by the equality act but your accommodations are only for your physical health" was not on my UK HIV discrimination bingo card.

Guess it is now.

Newfill?

David Kirby & Therese Frare.

Eternal respect.

Snap. Am encouraging attendance.

Booked. :)

What balls?

March 6th - ICA
@tanyatagaq.bsky.social

Returning to London for the first time since 2019 we are absolutely delighted to be hosting the legendary Inuk throat singer & writer Tanya Tagaq at the ICA with her band.

Save the ticket now. On sale Friday 26th Sept at 10am.

link.dice.fm/f4f0eb44c283

Loved seeing some of Derek Jarman's Black Tar paintings.

The urge to touch & sniff was very strong.

Well worth a visit, at the Amanda Wilkinson Gallery in London.

Was she the lady at the British Library gig? If so she was great.

100% yes I want to block that shit.

Is pruneface dead yet?

Was not able to listen and can only imagine. Apparently our national psychology manager was there so hopefully some learning will be shared. Am trying to encourage more to attend the Nature one.

Think you had a few from ours in attendance yesterday ;) Hope it was a success. Feedback that I heard today was good.

Black baseball cap with "UNCLEAN" in big red letters on the front.

My new hat is going down a treat in the office and generated enough discussion around language use. Waiting to be told not to wear it by managers.

Think the next one will say "Riddled"

Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne were so good at the Attenborough Centre that taking a photo during the show would have ruined the entire ambience.

Here is a telephone instead.

We are hosting a webinar on European responses to vicarious #trauma among people working in mental health and #addiction services. Including work from Ireland, Poland, Denmark & Ukraine. Thu 22 May, 1600-1800 BST. With ENTER European Mental Health Network.
medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/digitas/trau...

I will share this at work. I am sure this will be of interest to the psychology wonks who run the trauma groups. :)

No not Stockwell. London is a distant memory :)

Impossible to articulate how much I hate this...

Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid, just for HIV prevention & treatment.

Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.

I hope you have success. She is at the top of my "would like to see before I croak" list.

Tanya Tagaq

UK?

@babayagashut.bsky.social

They had plastic surgery from the neck up.

Leigh Bowery @ Tate modern was worth the trip.

This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

Healthcare professionals should not use the term "clean" when discussing people's sexual & or drug use status.Twice in the last month have heard nurses use this term and both times I wanted to smack the word out of their mouths. Instead they had a "Learning with Gary" moment.
Retractions were swift.

YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Short Film by Derek Jarman) [1979]

.. and only now do I discover #DerekJarman did a 12 minute film in 1979 for 3 tracks from Broken English (#1 & #3 are great). youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?... @gham73.bsky.social