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City-level drug policies in Portugal: the Covid-19 pandemic as an analyzer of h...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic health crisis and its potential implications for people who use drugs (PWUD) created permissive conditions toward social innovation and experimentation. Still, it also exposed gaps in harm reduction approaches. Harm reduction responsiveness was informed by the priorities defined at the local level, so it was not applied uniformly in different regions. This paper intends to cont...

A century of queerness after dark: a socio-historical review of lesbian, gay, b...

This article intends to explore the dynamic interplay between queer nightlife, societal changes, and drug use over the last century in Portugal by taking Lisbon as a case study as well as selecting critical historical periods, namely the Années Folles of the 1920s; the authoritarian Estado Novo (1926-75); the post-revolution phase (1975-2000), and the first two decades of the new millennium (2000-2020). The art...

Sexual terrorism in the post-pandemic nightlife? A feminist critical discourse ...

In October 2021, a growing number of women denounced needle spiking occurrences in the United Kingdom. The scientific evidence demonstrates the reduced prevalence of spiking and the difficulties in proving its incidence. However, when communicating spiking stories, the media tends to reproduce harmful rape myths. By using English-written online media as sources, this study aimed to analyze and describe needle s...

Drug use among non-binary people in Europe: findings from european web survey o...

Traditionally, the survey-based methods used in drug research and drug monitoring at national and European levels tend to be blind to the specific experiences of non-binary people who use drugs. The invisibility of gender-diverse people is related to the use of standard one-step methods in the sex/gender demographic question, specifically the use of binary and mutually exclusive categories (male/ female or M/F)...

Estratégias para um sector da cultura mais inclusivo: white paper e recomendações

O MIL, nos formatos de festival e de convenção, antecipa futuras tendências e provoca as questões que determinam o futuro dos setores da música e da cultura.Na edição de 2021, o MIL introduziu um novo formato ao seu programa. Os laboratórios de ideias são sessões privadas de trabalho e de debate exploratório focadas em desafios atuais para o setor da música e da cultura. Tendo por base uma questão de partida, o...

Chemsex in Lisbon? Self-reflexivity to uncover the scene and discuss the creati...

This essay is based in a self-reflexive collective process and intends to present the chemsex scene in Lisbon and harm reduction responses implemented to address the needs of chemsex practitioners. The analysis considered professional experiences, participant observation, literature review of the relevant data in Portugal and autoethnographic data from a chemsex practitioner and peer educator. This essay aims t...

Lilac care guidelines: taking care of people who experience(d) gender-based vio...

Certificação Sexism Free Night: da visibilização do assédio sexual à criação de...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise sobre o assédio sexual em ambientes de lazer noturno a partir das perceções de bystanders (observadores/as) e da avaliação do processo de implementação da certificação Sexism Free Night no Porto. Através de um questionário online (N=546) foi possível verificar que, de acordo com os/as bystanders, o assédio sexual é muito prevalecente em ambientes de lazer noturno. Esses dados i...

Sexism free night: research report (sexualised violence in nightlife environments)

This survey is part of the project Sexism Free Night – Raising awareness and capacity building towards safer and more egalitarian nightlife environments (Grant Agreement Nº 856934). This initiative campaigns for gender awareness and sensibility in nightlife environments, and for safer, more diverse and more egalitarian nightlife spaces. It is a European project funded by the Rights Equality and Citizenship (REC...

Sexism free night standards: gender-responsive criteria to prevent, detect and ...