How Gender Affirming Care Is Harm Reduction
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The nature of the trans experience for me, and many, is of being forcibly politicised from a young age. Our…
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“We Want Recovery” Female Sex Workers Using Drugs in Burundi
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Women tend to be a drug using group that often is less served or face higher barriers of access to…
Dope Men: How We Went From Alcohol Prohibition to Another
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Just past midnight on April 7th 1933, a truck pulled up to the White House filled with beer. President Roosevelt…
How Women Self-Organise: The Birth of Street and Antiprohibition Feminism
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TalkingDrugs has partnered with Luana Malheiro, anthropologist and drugs researcher from Brazil, to bring to life her insights from her extensive research with…
Owning My Pleasure – An exploration of Narcofeminism
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“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have…
Campaigning to Eliminate Violence against Women who Use Drugs
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The goal of the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) is to improve the availability, quality, and accessibility of…
Brazilian Open Letter to Lula Urges For Incarceration and Drug Policy Rethink
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Since president-elect Luiz Lula da Silva’s campaign started gathering momentum, civil society organisations have demanded he prioritise the review of…
Number of Incarcerated Women Worldwide Rises by 60% Since 2000
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The World Female Imprisonment List was published earlier this month by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR)…
Brazilian Activists Deliver Manifesto to End Drug War to Leading Presidential Candidate
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While left-leaning presidential and gubernatorial hopefuls are either silent about or dodging the issue of drug policy in their campaigns…
Weapons and Feminicides: The Mexican (misnamed) War on Drugs and Gender-Based Violence
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The (misnamed) 'War on Drugs' in Mexico was declared in December 2006 by former president Felipe Calderon. Despite the violent…
Indonesian Drug Policy Victimises Women and Damages Their Health
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This article is published to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26. On…
Villain Or Victim? Understanding The Role of Women In The Latin American Drug Trade
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One of the most effective ways the War on Drugs justifies violence is by stereotyping its enemies: the various players…