🚨Urgent action needed to ensure people living with #HIV in prisons are not left behind.
With @sophiaforum.bsky.social, Ci2 Bureau & @tht.org.uk, we are calling for the HIV Action Plan to be complemented with a set of concrete actions to meet the challenges of HIV care in prisons.
When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.
They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
So thrilled to announce that I will be presenting an original research presentation, 'The Story of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival', at British Film Institute (BFI) Flare's 40th Anniversary on March 23rd! 🎥 🏳️🌈 🎞️ 🏳️⚧️
Tickets go live on 26th February 12pm!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...
It’s National #HIV Testing Week! Take a few minutes to order your free test kit – it’s quick, simple, and you can do it all at home 🏡
Testing is the only way to know your HIV status, and now’s the perfect time to test.
Get your FREE test now: https://freetesting.hiv/
#ITest #HIVTestingWeek
🚨The Scottish Parliament has voted against the ‘Nordic Model Bill’ in a win for sex workers' rights.
Jacqui Stevenson, Senior Policy, Research & Influencing Manager, congratulates Scotland for Decrim: "This victory would not have been achieved without their tireless campaigning."
These are war crimes committed in our name.
Thanks Becky, hope you're well!!
Thanks so much Ketil. Many parallels with your work on Norway!
Thanks Zara!! 🫶
Thank you Rebecca!! 🥰
Thanks as always to my fantastic supervisor @julialaite.bsky.social 💫
New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s.
Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!):
#histmed #histsex #AIDShistory
So excited for this important conference on the Politics of Motherhood in Feb- open to all!
I'll be speaking about how narratives of motherhood were mobilised in discussions about and by sex workers in late twentieth-century Britain.
Fantastic range of speakers and panels
It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.
After years of decline, Trump’s cuts to HIV/AIDS funding, mirrored by the UK and others, mean that AIDS death and HIV infections are rising again.
#WorldAIDSDay
NEW QUEER HISTORY ARTICLE from me & @charlielynch.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
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💉 Big step forward in #HIV prevention!
NICE recommends long-acting injection (cabotegravir/CAB-LA), given every 2 months, for people who can’t take daily oral #PrEP. Ensuring an equitable rollout will be crucial
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#STI #STISky 🛟
Landlords and their lobbyists threw everything they had at killing this bill and still lost. Amazing news for renters everywhere who refused to back down!
Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.
Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain
As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀
Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!
Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
📣New Issue Alert📣
Volume 38 Issue 3 of Social History of Medicine is now available online!
with 12 original research articles (7 of which are #OpenAccess) plus #histmed book reviews
*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy known for her incredible resilience she survived homelessness, police brutality, and systemic oppression, yet kept fighting for the community she loved.
Image courtesy of Miss Major/Beck Witt 📸
Fester
Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster www.ucpress.edu/books/fester...
🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨
Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'
It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh
Photograph of two British women police officers from the 1950s wearing masks to protect themselves from the smog
Congratulations 🎊 to @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and @janetweston.bsky.social for a brilliant conference! 👏🏻 Lots of amazing papers including @historywill.bsky.social @sophiemhistory.bsky.social @stephemmabrown.bsky.social @henryyeomans.bsky.social 🌟 Looking forward to next steps 😀
The UK's #HIV response is failing women.
In 2023, new cases increased the most in heterosexual women, but they are less likely to be offered or to take a test. Too many are diagnosed with HIV late, when it is more likely to have affected their health.
The violent political policing of picketing at Orgreave coking works in June 1984 was the single worst abuse of state power during the miners’ strike. Miners and their supporters have been campaigning for an inquiry for 40 years. Congratulations to @orgreavejustice.bsky.social.
