Kane Race
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Kane Race
@kanerace.bsky.social
Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies
University of Sydney
Gadigal Land
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Reagan’s toxic 1980s blend of neoconservatism and neoliberalism, aka illiberal family values, aka a murderously moralised biopolitics #tylenol #drugs #familyvalues #reproductivehealthmatters
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
by constructing it as a disaster that is preventable through women’s moral choices around drug use (ie tylenol).
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thanks so much Ashley
July 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM