Adrian Farrugia

EP 2:25 The Moral Lessons of Chemsex with Maurice Spotify video

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...

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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...

“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

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and most recognisable research discipline - removing it from the university's program is like losing a key piece from the jig saw puzzle of social science.  Once it is gone, students wanting to master knowledge and develop research expertise about modern societies would be well advised to pursue their...

**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/...

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...).

Who's Represented/What's Unrepresentable: AI and Race Thao Phan and Fabian Offert (paper 1) and Maya Indira Ganesh (paper 2).

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.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration to and from Australia Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 y...

**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.

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…

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-...

Stigmatising space-times: Addressing healthcare stigma beyond interpersonal interactions - Gemma Nourse, Adrian Farrugia, Kate Seear, Emily Lenton, Elena Cama, Carla Treloar, 2025 Stigma related to blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been shown to undermine the quality of healthcare. Given the pervasi...

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/...

Great 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...

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

“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...

The Interruptions Study The Interruptions Study: Experiences of discontinuation of PrEP

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/...

Activist Judy Chang Talks Narcofeminism and Drug-User Rights For years, Judy Chang has been a leader in the movement for drug-user rights. Since 2017, she’s served as executive ...

“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: