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Anthony K J Smith

@anthonykjsmith.bsky.social

Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney and Lecturer at Curtin University. Researching HIV, PrEP, critical data studies, mpox, gender, sexuality. Sociologist & qualitative health researcher. A bit queer. He/him

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20.02.2026 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI think a lot of spaces like that would be probably lacking”: trans poetics and the built environment of a South Australian mental health network Too often approaches to the inclusion of trans people in mental health services fail to consider how the built environment impacts on sense of safety and being welcome within the space. Trans poeti...

This new publication from a project I am involved with uses trans poetics (cΓ‘rdenas) as a framework to think through the inclusion of trans people in the built environment of Australian mental health services. πŸŒˆπŸŽ“

20.01.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked β€˜what can a body with PrEP do?’

Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:

The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

12.01.2026 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ New paper in Social Science & Medicine!

Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia

#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

19.12.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck yeah!

04.12.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.

12.11.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Our edited collection on temporalities of health, illness and care is now published with Palgrave Macmillan.

15 fantastic chapters from author teams around the world unpacking rich social theory of time in relation to studies of health and illness.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

20.10.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, definitely agree!

16.10.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I and many people are still boycotting and, to be frank, judge people who continue publishing in it. While I understand the publishing landscape is a tough one, I strongly encourage publishing elsewhere. If not on principle, just to avoid negative impressions.

16.10.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sexual Behavior Journal Under Fire Over Gender Dysphoria Paper Critics blast paper about controversial theory, call for editor's removal

Are people still boycotting Archives of Sexual Behavior?

The domain for the open letter seems to have lapsed, but this article covers it...

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

16.10.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I think pash/pashing is one of the best australian/nz words. lets all agree to start using it more

10.10.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
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What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

29.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 680    πŸ” 287    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 61
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very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

01.09.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 14464    πŸ” 6176    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 141

Omg I think this like every day

01.09.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Legit tho! I guess I’ll just have to take generic white guy A names.

13.08.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just got Alex as a reply in an email! Wtf

13.08.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Even without an unusual name spelling. I have had people *reply* to my email with β€˜Hi Andrew’ a concerning number of times!

24.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.

In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.

Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

14.07.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw yeah that’s heaps cool eh, I’m hell keen m8

29.05.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah judge me

27.05.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did it yesterday actually… but it was a meeting with 6 people, not 5!

27.05.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah and I’ll do it to you too, m8

27.05.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza β€˜mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a β€œmass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...

Oh my fucking god.

It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff.

They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...

31.03.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2913    πŸ” 1738    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 145
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New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

17.03.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The FDA is cracking down on 'poppers' producers Double Scorpio, a popular brand of "poppers," has stopped operations after a search and seizure from the FDA, it said on Friday.

This has RFK Jr's fingerprints all over it. I don't know what he really believes about HIV & AIDS, since he's all over the map, but at one point recently he suggested poppers were a more likely cause than the virus. 1/
www.fastcompany.com/91298370/fda...

15.03.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Idk Ben pretty hot take, eh

06.03.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#OpenAccess in ANZ Journal of Survey. Pilot research to explore experiences of gay/bi men with anorectal surgery. We found poor experiences of aftercare related to sexual wellbeing / function, and opportunities for improvement to surgical education.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

05.03.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The @austhistassoc.bsky.social statement on UA's new definition of antisemitism:

27.02.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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New #OpenAccess publication from our team in HIV Medicine, led by very talented PhD Candidate Simin Yu, examining how country of birth & migration status shape HIV care engagement among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia (2019-2022).

Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

27.02.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0