@adrianfarrugia.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University. Health sociologist with a focus on alcohol and other drugs. https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/a2farrugia
Collage featuring a person in a red dress with gears, lightbulb, book, and laptop — representing knowledge sharing and peer review – and held aloft on a paper airplane by a giant hand.
Who’s afraid of #Reviewer2?
Journal editors @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sweta Rajan-Rankin @silkeroth.bsky.social and Maud Perrier demystify the much-maligned peer review process – and all the care, thought and reflection that goes into it – in the Magazine’s latest issue.
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If you want to hear me talking about The Moral Lessons of Chemsex book check out my interview with Dr Dallas Bragg 👇 the book is open access too! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
open.spotify.com/episode/4cKz...
Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
01.08.2025 01:19 — 👍 15 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
“Is drug-use stigma a breach of human rights law?: Insights from Australia” by Sean Mulcahy, Kate Seear, & @carlatreloar.bsky.social (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy…what do you think? Is drug use stigma a breach of human rights law?
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Now published in Contemporary Drug Problems - online first #drugs #queerstudies #criticaldrugstudies
02.07.2025 03:34 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
**IMPORTANT**
Macquarie Uni is proposing to cut Sociology entirely
11 of 14 staff may be made redundant, and student choice severely limited.
After 60+ years, Sociology and Politics could vanish from MQ.
🖊️ Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
#SaveSociology #HigherEd #MQcuts
Recent article by TASA member Kiran Pienaar et al.
Undoing Minority Stress: Rethinking Queer and Gender-Diverse Substance Use
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Plenary sessions showcasing "Real People, Real Action, Real Results" announced for the 15th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference happening this 6-8 August in Naarm (Melbourne).
Register for #VH2025: www.hepatitis.org.au/registration...
Led by Emily Lenton, our new article examines how the process of producing medical records can be implicated in stigma. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
22.05.2025 01:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
TASA 2025 General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025!
🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...
Three (2 at Deakin & 1 at ECU) PhD scholarship opportunities are available as part of a new Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Youth Futures after Mobility
The full details are available via a Word document available here:
www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...
For the second webinar in AIVL's 'You Can't Say That' series, we reflect on the historical exclusion of women who use drugs from traditional feminist spaces and advocacy. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BBIJeo6ERtSTiA78XDZ3sQ#/registration
#narcofeminism #humanrights
Only 20 days left! General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025!
🔗 www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...
Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative:
aivl.org.au/resources/re...
Love to see @outhistory have added Positive Images to their Bookshelf (outhistory.org/items/show/6...).
31.03.2025 04:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series
Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.
12.03.2025 22:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
**JOB OPP**
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology (part-time)
University of Sydney
Apps close on April 27th
For details, visit usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
My latest article examines how drug education professionals understand and respond to the relationship between alcohol and other drug consumption, sex and harm. Focusing on agency, I analyse how these professionals constitute the locus of harm and how this impacts drug education responses.
12.03.2025 22:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
04.03.2025 02:50 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Led by Gemma Nourse, our new article examines stigma in healthcare as a biopolitical spatial-temporal phenomenon that shapes relationships between people, time, space and technologies of service provision. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
26.02.2025 02:02 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Great launch of Kate Seear's report about #humanrights & #drugpolicy. Insightful panel discussions with Ele Morrison @aivl.bsky.social, Nick Kent @HRV & Alejandra Zuluaga about the importance of including the voices of #PWUD in #drugpolicyreform decision-making. opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/rep...
16.02.2025 00:18 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
My latest article published in The Sociological Review @sociologicalreview.bsky.social explores the relationship between gender, harm and fun in young women and gender diverse people’s experiences of alcohol and other drugs. A brief overview of the article is available: tinyurl.com/4bk22buk
14.02.2025 00:35 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
“When people worry about women drinking I say, ‘Shouldn’t you be worried about men who take these actions?‘” – Ash, Australia
@adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Kiran Pienaar and Fay Dennis @sociology-gold.bsky.social on male violence and a woman's right to experience pleasure.
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“Basically every safety protocol we have in place to protect against overdose, parents can't access”: Mothers who use unregulated drugs’ experiences of dual public health emergencies by Dr. Jade Boyd (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social!
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Are you someone who has used PrEP and at some point stopped taking it (temporarily or permanently)?
My colleagues at ARCSHS, La Trobe are studying experiences of stopping/pausing PrEP use and are seeking interview participants. More detail and eligibility here: www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/work/...
“Trying drugs, and pursuing pleasure... is a feminist act."
Judy Chang has led @inpud.bsky.social since 2017, and been at the forefront of the narcofeminist movement. As she prepares for a new role, she discusses achievements and challenges ahead with @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social:
