Our final publication from GLaD’s hepatitis C post-cure project is now online and available on open access with Sociology of Health and Illness Journal. Read an abridged version of troubling complaint mechanisms for people who (have a history of) hepatitis C, informed by Sara Ahmed bit.ly/3xs2bWp.

Troubling complaint: Addressing hepatitis C-related stigma and discrimination through complaint mechanisms doi.org/10.1111/1467-9…

We’re pleased to be giving evidence to the Vic parliamentary inquiry on workplace drug testing today. Our Professor Kate Seear and Sean Mulcahy will speak, drawing on our inquiry submission - with Adrian Farrugia @elenajcama & Tim Broady - which you can read here: parliament.vic.gov.au/49651f/content…

TONIGHT at Hares & Hyenas! I am talking to the luminous historian Geraldine Fela about her fascinating, moving, important new book on nursing at the frontlines of Australia's AIDS crisis.

At the packed out launch of Geraldine Fela’s new book “Critical Care: Nurses on the frontline of Australia's AIDS crisis” 🥳 unsw.press/books/critical…

in Naarm today. all we have is each other.

A staggering piece - especially on the memorial of the atrocities of 7 October. Impossible to understand how anyone could write this, let alone publish it amidst the horror, pain & fear now afflicting millions. Dreadful from ⁦⁦The Observer⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I've a short review of the new Hollinghurst Our Evenings in The Monthly, The Culture Edition, which also includes a gobsmacking 2-book review by longtime favourite Ellena Savage - truly lit crit of a level rarely seen in larger Australian pubs these days.

Health+Law webinar TOMORROW featuring Doherty Institute's Ben Cowie Hepatitis Australia's Lucy Clynes HIV Legal's Vikas Parwani & ASHM's Benjamin Riley discussing medical, legal and policy aspects of #hepatitisB and migration. Info and registration here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

FREELANCERS: I'm commissioning history articles about the internet for the BBC. Looking for pitches about chapters & corners of the web that people will remember, but haven't thought about in the while. Nostalgia, surprising stories, foundational communities, get in touch!

“Dave is a characteristically Hollinghurstian creation – a curious and acute observer of social dynamics, sensitive but not always shrewd enough to defend his own interests.” Dion Kagan reviews Alan Hollinghurst’s “dark literary masterpiece” #OurEvenings mnth.ly/iPrEoVA

I need two reviewers for Meanjin Quarterly online next month—deadline first week of Nov and paid at $150. Please drop me a DM or email if you're keen 📩

this is beyond beyond beyond.

ANU, Canberra Uni, and now UOW, in a matter of weeks - hundreds of jobs gone from the sector just from nsw/act. this is outrageous - the attacks on higher ed from the government and from university administrations is abysmal.

My colleague David J Carter and I wrote a brief piece for UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute about the importance of legal environments that support the health and rights of people living with #HIV and #hepatitisB.

New Hollinghurst novel reviewed by me, a minor Australian Hollinghurst specialist.

Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

"As epidemics and the science and technology used to address them change, so too must the law adapt and change to ensure that no one is left behind."

Please sign and support Nine freelancers if you ever read listen or otherwise access their content. megaphone.org.au/petitions/free… via Megaphone Australia

Someone should do a Monthly-style extended piece on the phenomenon of the professional board member in Australia: that is, sitting on boards for a living. It looks an interesting phenomenon, and one with significant wider consequences for how our institutions operate.