Reposted by DecriminalizaMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 11/11/2025"The book is at once a subtle, outrageous, energetic and kaleidoscopic look at queerness, with Sycamore’s trademark energy and high literary style." Thank you for this gorgeous conversation in Xtra Magazine!!🌺🌺🌺 0124
Reposted by DecriminalizaEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 07/11/2025At some point, when all this is settled, I would like the BC public to hold this person to account for her disinformation and the community harm it has wreaked. Well done @brishti.bsky.social getting more for the public record. 14721
Reposted by DecriminalizaPressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 07/11/2025Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...pressprogress.caFounders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug traffickingEris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. 06938
Reposted by DecriminalizaHarms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 07/11/2025"[C]o-founders of the Drug User Liberation Front compassion club, Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, were found guilty." "To support DULF’s Charter challenge, consider donating to them": www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati... #BritishColumbia #Canada #Courts #Drugs #Healthcare #Policingdrugdatadecoded.caCourt finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24. 1107
Reposted by Decriminalizaalex @unfinishedlines.club · 07/11/2025update on the dulf case despite the judge recognizing the political theatre that led to the DULF arrests, the court has found them guilty they still have a charter challenge & im optimistic they'll win there #harmreduction #drugsky #cdnpolidrugdatadecoded.caCourt finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24. 22211
Reposted by DecriminalizaEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 07/11/2025📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣 But WAIT! Not so fast… drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...drugdatadecoded.caCourt finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24. 02314
Reposted by Decriminalizatyson singh kelsall @tsk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025> Read about how DULF's co-founders discussed their compassion club with the VPD. VPD reps offered their support for the project. Then the VPD abruptly raided the compassion club and arrested its co-founders: thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...thetyee.caSafe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The TyeeThe founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws. 13821
Reposted by DecriminalizaJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 15/09/2025pay attention to the framing of what constitutes "political violence" and what's just considered "normal" violence, or isn't considered violent at all 0116
Reposted by DecriminalizaNotANarc @nobill53ab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025One lawyer reviews an online application... That's all it takes to apprehend and hold someone for 72 hours??? Dangerous and unjust. People will absolutely end up in the emergency department in complex withdrawal. 185
Reposted by DecriminalizaMichael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 08/07/2025" #Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead." #abpoli #ableg #abhealth #UCPcorruption #measlesthetyee.caDanielle Smith, Queen of Measles | The TyeeAlberta leads the continent in stoking the disease’s resurgence. The province’s former top doctor lays blame. 1105
Reposted by DecriminalizaDana Larsen @danalarsen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Near record of 105 samples analyzed yesterday at both Get Your Drugs Tested sites! All paid for by our cannabis and shroom sales with zero government funding! getyourdrugstested.comgetyourdrugstested.comHome - Get Your Drugs TestedDana Larsen at the Get Your Drugs Tested centre 1102
Reposted by DecriminalizaAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025"Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia’s credibility. Often, the problem with AI-generated summaries is that they contain mistakes, the result of AI “hallucinations.”"techcrunch.comWikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest | TechCrunchEditors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia's credibility. 1184
Reposted by Decriminalizaalex @unfinishedlines.club · 26/06/2025completely missed that the largest darknet market went down last week i know lots of folks who use darknet markets to obtain a non-fentanyl opioid supply - this will definitely have impacts on people's safety, especially given the continual ratcheting of safer opioids in canada #drugskybleepingcomputer.comPolice seizes Archetyp Market drug marketplace, arrests adminLaw enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020. 085
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif? 'Hard mode' (no star wars, star trek, lord of the rings or marvel)media.tenor.coma woman in a red dress is standing in a dark room .Alt: Nomi Malone in a red dress copying the moves from a showgirl show she aspires to be cast in. 030
Reposted by DecriminalizaPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23/06/2025This week, millions across the US are under a sweltering heat dome. Heat waves are especially deadly for incarcerated people, as prisons are not equipped to handle these environmental emergencies – which will only get worse because of climate change. 01914
Reposted by DecriminalizaMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Honey, look what just arrived in my apartment!! Yes, the galleys for TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11th from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, get ready!!!!💜💖🌹👠💥⚡ 85912
Reposted by DecriminalizaLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/06/2025New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting. 8353439810138
Reposted by DecriminalizaMikiki @mkkultra.bsky.social · 06/06/2025So we did a thing. On Being Infectious. Presented at the #QueerPharmaConference held at the Freie Universität Berlin We spoke about the generative possibilities of HIV infection and its aesthetic (re)modulations. With @alexmcclelland.bsky.social 191
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Why is the federal government still refusing to decriminalize HIV? #HIVISNOTACRIME xtramagazine.com/health/hiv-d... @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social @xtramagazine.com @hivjustice.netxtramagazine.comWhy is the federal government still refusing to decriminalize HIV? | Xtra MagazineAdvocates have demanded change for decades. Canada’s government says there’s no path forward for legal reform 052
Reposted by DecriminalizaMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Pride month is a corporate marketing scam, now we are subjected to endless vapidity to buy buy buy into a community that is a sham. Of course, we can create communal possibility, but it will never be behind the sweatshop-produced rainbow flag or target-marketed Pride parades. Let's get creative. 818133
Reposted by DecriminalizaHIV Justice Network @hivjustice.net · 29/05/2025Advocates, legal experts, and community leaders from Zimbabwe worked together to repeal the criminalisation of HIV and to stop a new law that threatened to reintroduce #HIV criminalisation. Don’t miss the key lessons for other countries seeking to end HIV criminalisation. youtu.be/L8B9s56yR4M?... 021
Reposted by DecriminalizaEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 29/05/2025I do not care if Canada post is ever profitable. It is a public service, everyone owns it. That’s valuable in and of itself. We don’t ask the emergency room or public schools to turn a profit. We ask them to be accessible for everyone to use. 24718224
Reposted by DecriminalizaAngela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Samuel L. Jackson and 'The Fix' are right: ensuring people have meaning, social interaction, and access to what they need are the first steps to addressing the root causes of addiction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsN...youtube.comSamuel L. Jackson on why addiction is not what you think it isYouTube video by Johann Hari 032
Reposted by Decriminalizakaren ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 14/05/2025yes, you should. #SafeSupply 0142
Reposted by DecriminalizaPetra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025“The current evidence does not support that the benefits of involuntary treatment outweigh the risks and costs. In addition, there are questions around medical ethics, human rights, social justice, the role of lawyers as gatekeepers to care and potential harms.” #ableg #abpoli #CareIsNotForced 0108
Reposted by DecriminalizaRob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The political economy of platformed silos: Theorizing data storage reconfigurations in the age of interoperability capitalism by @matthewarcher.bsky.social, Louis Ravn & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social in Big Data & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 0169
Reposted by DecriminalizaRosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... 46852
Reposted by Decriminalizaalex @unfinishedlines.club · 08/05/2025good read on the possible reasons for the drop in deaths in NA & how crackdowns might lead to a rise, featuring @nabarund.bsky.social I'd add a 4th option, people's tolerances are much higher now & they've adapted to the drug supply (also maybe fewer new users accessing the ultrapotent supply) 072
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Solid lessons which I'm resposting for myself as we need more beyond asking students to write everything by hand ... which is not a real plan for many 020
Reposted by DecriminalizaEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 30/04/2025How are 1,000 housing units and 1,000 shelter spaces going to help the estimated 80,000 people who experienced homelessness in Ontario in 2024, now set to be deeply criminalized by the Province? news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...news.ontario.caOntario Newsroom 1125
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Apparently, I love nothing more than writing a 12-page letter back to the ethics office to detail their misunderstanding of a qualitative researcher's legal obligations re: confidentially protection. 030
Reposted by DecriminalizaCZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 25/04/2025So think about the really unreliable tabloids and web publications — Zero Hedge, the Daily Mail, Epoch Times, that set. What makes them unreliable isn’t that they’re always wrong, it’s that they go to great lengths to make it impossible to fact check them, and to phrase their slanders ambiguously. 115445
Reposted by DecriminalizaDiana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Decriminalize homelessness. 0272
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Ottawa, come to see me chat about my book with some great people tomorrow night at Irene's Pub #HIVISNOTACRIME carleton.ca/fpga/cu-even...carleton.caAuthor Meets Readers | Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence - Faculty of Public and Global AffairsAbout the Book Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious crimina... 050
Reposted by DecriminalizaEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 17/04/2025🧵 I feel compelled to respond to Minister Williams’ attempt to discredit and silence my dissent in his interview with @ctheriault.bsky.social, to whom I am grateful for allowing me to speak to the UCP’s forced abstinence act and for defending my right to do so. 1/ podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comAlberta Moves to Force Treatment for Addiction Under New LegislationPodcast Episode · The Courtney Theriault Show · 2025-04-16 · 8m 24327
Reposted by DecriminalizaHIV Justice Network @hivjustice.net · 14/04/2025Threats of prosecution for #HIV non-disclosure create fear, abuse, and silence. Support HIV policies that prioritise human rights and public health. 💡 Learn how HIV criminalisation affects human rights on academy.hivjustice.net 021
Reposted by Decriminalizakaren ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 10/04/2025prohibitioning since 1908 1166
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Book Launch April 16, Montreal: Digital News & HIV Criminalization by Colin Hastingsn with a panel discussion on activist research with Martin French (Concordia University), Alexander McClelland (Carleton University), Jayne Malenfant (McGill University), and André Capretti (HIV Legal Network). 151
Reposted by DecriminalizaSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.bookshop.orgLet the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 311534425
Reposted by DecriminalizaL. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025Cops are not "popular culture" but sure 210114
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 03/04/2025If you're in Ottawa on Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm come out to Irene's pub for a conversation about my book Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence #HIVisNotACrime carleton.ca/fpga/cu-even...carleton.caAuthor Meets Readers | Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence - Faculty of Public and Global AffairsAbout the Book Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious crimina... 042
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 02/04/2025HIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project, from Chad Clarke & Colin Johnson blog.catie.ca/2025/04/02/h... ##HIVISNOTACRIMEblog.catie.caHIV criminalization and the Canadian government’s failed law reform project: Another. Incredible. Disappointment. Surprise! | CATIE BlogThe Government of Canada has broken its promise to reform the laws that criminalize people living with HIV. In November 2024, the Federal Justice Minister’s office informed the Canadian Coalition to… 083
Reposted by DecriminalizaGary W. Kinsman @gkinsman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Please check this out if you have a chance! 041
Decriminaliza @alexmcclelland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Check out my review of @gkinsman.bsky.social's The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles, Revised Third Edition from @concordiapress.bsky.social in my favourite, The Anarchist Review of Books (winter issue: www.anarchistreviewofbooks.org) 143
Reposted by DecriminalizaHIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025A constitutional challenge being heard today, brought forward by @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and two individual Applicants, will determine whether a number of life-saving supervised consumption sites in the province can continue to operate past the end of this month. 13628
