Drugs & GenderLatest Report Highlights Small Drop in World Female ImprisonmentsAndré Gomes.Feb 26, 2025A new report by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck University revealed that over 733,000 women…
Drug Harm ReductionDrugs & GenderPersonal StoriesHIT Conference 2024: Resisting the State and Keeping Communities AliveSascha Bicknell.Dec 19, 2024In a red brick bar, aptly named ‘Revolución de Cuba’, in Liverpool, the speakers of the HIT conference shared drinks…
Drugs & GenderDrugs & RacePersonal StoriesThe Legacy of Marielle Franco for Brazil’s Justice SystemAndré Galdino.Dec 16, 2024Marielle Franco didn’t die; she multiplied into thousands of voices clamouring for justice. This October, the world finally witnessed the…
Drugs & GenderChemsex in Colombia: Risk, Health and Pleasure in Times of Digital IsolationLevinson Niño-Leal.Nov 29, 2024Sexualised drug use is not a new phenomenon; in fact, it dates back to the origins of humanity. However, in…
Drugs & GenderPsychedelicsWe Need More Research into Ketamine Use By Women and Gender-Diverse PeopleIsabelle Gius.Oct 21, 2024On 20 June, in honour of World Psychedelics Day, the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) and TalkingDrugs published…
Drug PolicyDrugs & GenderPersonal StoriesThe Weight of Inaction: The Mothers Fighting the War on DrugsJéssica Souto.May 22, 2024Although this article isn’t about me, I think it’s important to give you some context. My name is Jéssica, I’m…
Drug Harm ReductionDrugs & GenderPersonal StoriesHow Gender Affirming Care Is Harm ReductionAilish Brennan.Jan 23, 2024The nature of the trans experience for me, and many, is of being forcibly politicised from a young age. Our…
Drug Harm ReductionDrugs & DevelopmentDrugs & GenderPersonal Stories“We Want Recovery” Female Sex Workers Using Drugs in BurundiAndré Gomes.Nov 6, 2023Women tend to be a drug using group that often is less served or face higher barriers of access to…
Drug PolicyDrug TraffickingDrugs & GenderDrugs & RacePersonal StoriesDope Men: How We Went From Alcohol Prohibition to AnotherNiko Vorobyov.Sep 19, 2023Just past midnight on April 7th 1933, a truck pulled up to the White House filled with beer. President Roosevelt…
Coca & CocaineDrugs & GenderOther DrugsPersonal StoriesHow Women Self-Organise: The Birth of Street and Antiprohibition FeminismLuana Malheiro.Mar 8, 2023TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her extensive research with…
Drugs & GenderOther DrugsPersonal StoriesOwning My Pleasure – An exploration of NarcofeminismJessica Spratt.Feb 9, 2023“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have…
Drugs & GenderCampaigning to Eliminate Violence against Women who Use DrugsRuth Birgin.Nov 30, 2022The goal of the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) is to improve the availability, quality, and accessibility of…