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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t lose control homos

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 2d

Diagnose my ass!

I mean honestly

#pathologizeeverything

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 15d

Reagan’s toxic 1980s blend of neoconservatism and neoliberalism, aka illiberal family values, aka a murderously moralised biopolitics #tylenol #drugs #familyvalues #reproductivehealthmatters

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 15d

This is the same political trope, incidentally, as Foetal Alcohol Sydrome and also the 1980s crack war panic over crack babies which, alongside AIDS and the demonisation of Welfare Queens, were ideologically instrumental in the institution of the New Right

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 15d

by constructing it as a disaster that is preventable through women’s moral choices around drug use (ie tylenol).

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 15d

Among the many dangerous aspects of a the Trump-Kennedy announcements about #Tylenol during pregnancy - not least its disregard of scientifc evidence - one of the most interesting ive heard is that it effectively disparages the validity of autism as a way of being in the world (neurodivergently)

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 18d

And that all people living with HIV have equally proactive access to the antiretroviral therapies they need for their lives to continue using that same mode of delivery #injectables or daily oral @unaids.org

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 18d

Post #PEPFAR, DEMAND injectable #Lenacapavir is proactively made easily accessible to all members of key populations affected by #HiV - gay & other men who have sex with men, transgender & other women, people who inject drugs, migrants & incarcerated peoples -‘GLOBALLY. NOW.

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 20d

I’m not going to make it through customs am I

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · 21d

Can anyone recommend approachable readings for undergrads that do a good, no nonsense job of discussing the gender policing effects of binary restroom laws etc? In the vein of arguments such as these

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Jul 29

Please sign this - the world is a mess wnd it will only get worse if people wrent taugjt history openpetition.org/!repealjrg

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition

We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Spirit of Elspeth ~ my tribute to Elspeth Probyn delivered at her wake in Sydney, April 2025 🌸

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks so much Ashley

Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Jul 2

Now published in Contemporary Drug Problems - online first #drugs #queerstudies #criticaldrugstudies

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Jun 20

& it was awesome

Mikiki @mkkultra.bsky.social · Jun 6

So 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

Alex is a white gay with a multiple b&w tattoos on his arms and has a high & tight cropped haircut. He wears a black t-shirt that says ‘Acid’ in a white serif font typeface. His arms are crossed in front of his chest and he is making a ‘gay thoughts’ face.
Mikiki is a white* gay** with one scratchy tattoo peeking out from between an aggressively styled black and fashion-misfitted t-shirt. They are bald and have a dangly crystal earring hanging from a safety pin. Their left hand is up in the air in a very gay way. Their face is scrunched up but their eyes are open. It looks weird.

Two crisp gay whites hunch over a white work table while a video projection of Mariah Carey sings Hero live on a white wall.

Same two dry whites wearing all black in same black and white room with a projection of Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art from 1973. She is a white woman with shoulder length hair is on all fours scrubbing the stone stairs of the Wadsworth Atheneum.

Goth gays wearing black on the U-Bahn looking at each other. Same ‘Acid’ shirt, but now Mikiki’s precious Rick Owen’s sneaker boots are visible and their modified/hand-dyed (in tones of green blue white and black) tote bag is present at their feet. They are seated. The surrounding train car is grey.

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Hansjörg Dilger @hdilger.bsky.social · Jun 4

Amazing turnout at the opening of our workshop on "Queer Pharma", which is about to begin with a keynote speech by @kanerace.bsky.social on "Queer Psychoactivity: Switching Frameworks", at the Schwules Museum in Berlin tonight!
@mxschnepf.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Apr 30

To resist the violence of the current gender situation in the UK, real feminists should now all be going into men’s restrooms, identifying as trans women. #occupythegents

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Mar 20

Back Australian Thinking

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Back Australian Thinking — Australian Academy of the Humanities' 2025 Election Statement – Australian Academy of the Humanities

The Australian electorate, by and large, “backs Australian made” when it comes to manufacturing and innovation. But modern social and cultural challenges don’t receive the same profile. We call on the...

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Mar 16

the man in charge of the biggest government health budget on earth is blaming aids deaths on poppers

Meanwhile USA placing millions of people living with hiv around the world on a compulsory treatment holiday

Entertained yet?

Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Mar 16

Make America Dilate Again

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Mar 16

Make America Dilate Again

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Feb 19

Dear Europe, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and countries in South/East Asia and the Middle East, please get your act together to join forces & counter Trump, Putin & Netanyahu’s outrageous flouting/demolition of international law and order 😩

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Feb 7

Trump & Musk.take on Condoms for Hamas. There’s a headliner I never anticipated: The sum they claim this fantasized USAID Initiative cost would buy a BULLION frangers. This beggars analysis #condomstohamas

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Feb 6

Does criticising Trump’s stated desire to annexe Gaza count as antisemitism yet?

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Kane Race @kanerace.bsky.social · Feb 5

#MUSKsterious

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Dr Zoë Dubus @zoedubus.bsky.social · Dec 31

préparation sur le sujet, mais si ça vous intéresse et que vous lisez l’anglais il y a un excellent livre sur le sujet, « Pleasure Consuming Medicin, The Queer Politics of Drugs » de @kanerace.bsky.social

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