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Webinar: WomXn Who Use Drugs Should Be Included in Feminism
In this webinar we reflect on the historical exclusion of women who use drugs from traditional feminist spaces and advocacy.
AIVL’s webinar series: You Can’t Say That, delves into evidence-based and logical ideas that seem to face pervasive stigma from institutions across Australia. For the second webinar in the series, we reflect on the historical exclusion of women who use drugs from traditional feminist spaces and advocacy. We also examine the origins, rise, and impact of Narcofeminism, a global feminist movement led by women who use drugs.
Alla Bessenova
Bishek, Kyrgyzstan
Alla Bessonova, coordinator of the Expert Feminist Council ENPUD, she’s a narcofeminist, activist and co-author of scientific articles on women who use drugs. Alla Co-founder and Chairwoman of the Board of ...
Alla Bessenova
Bishek, Kyrgyzstan
Alla Bessonova, coordinator of the Expert Feminist Council ENPUD, she’s a narcofeminist, activist and co-author of scientific articles on women who use drugs. Alla Co-founder and Chairwoman of the Board of the Women’s Network of Key Communities in Kyrgyzstan. She coordinates ENPUD’s EFC and has influenced ENPUD’s tactical plan to make the development of Narcofeminism one of the main objectives for 2024-2026.
She is a member of the Secretariat of the Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS. At the initiative of EWNA, ENPUD and EHRA, Alla was nominated for the Judy Byrne Awards 2024. She is well known as a narcofeminist in the EECA region for her devotion to the development of women’s activism.
Alla believes that supporting and developing the potential of women, through narcofeminism, will provide an opportunity to reform and transform the current system of prohibition.
Judy Chang
London, England
Judy Chang is a leader in the movement for drug-user rights. She was the Executive Director of INPUD for eight years and has worked in the HIV, community health and development field from 2009 – 2015, across ar...
Judy Chang
London, England
Judy Chang is a leader in the movement for drug-user rights. She was the Executive Director of INPUD for eight years and has worked in the HIV, community health and development field from 2009 – 2015, across areas of programme management, resource mobilisation, and communications, in India, China and Thailand.
As a woman who uses drugs, she brings lived experience of over 20 years to her role as a global advocate for decriminalisation, harm reduction and community-leadership.
Judy has served on several steering committees, advisory boards and working groups related to global health governance, bringing the voice and perspectives of people who use drugs. Jude published widely on issues related to people who use drugs, spanning harm reduction, human rights and feminist theory and practice.
Sarah Whipple
California, USA
Sarah Whipple (she/her) is the Community Engagement Co-Director at the Yuba Harm Reduction Collective, a worker-led syringe service program serving rural Grass Valley, California in the United States. She is also...
Sarah Whipple
California, USA
Sarah Whipple (she/her) is the Community Engagement Co-Director at the Yuba Harm Reduction Collective, a worker-led syringe service program serving rural Grass Valley, California in the United States.
She is also a community organizer at the Sacramento Sex Workers Outreach Project. Her TikToks about harm reduction have amassed over three million likes. In 2024, Sarah received the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award from the International Network of People Who Use Drugs and the International Network of Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users.
Jessica Morales
Guatemala
Jessica Morales is an activist, decolonial and antiprohibitionist feminist from Guatemala. Part of the Latin American network of people who use drugs and the Flor y Miel collective of women and non-binary people ...
Jessica Morales
Guatemala
Jessica Morales is an activist, decolonial and antiprohibitionist feminist from Guatemala. Part of the Latin American network of people who use drugs and the Flor y Miel collective of women and non-binary people who use drugs. A mother, lesbian and drug user, winner of the Jude Byrne emerging female award in 2023.
Emily Ebdon
Tasmania, Australia
Emily is a practicing Narcofeminist and a strong ally to sex workers and LGBTIQA+ peers. She is passionate about empowering women and femme identifying people with harm reduction tools and knowledge and human rig...
Emily Ebdon
Tasmania, Australia
Emily is a practicing Narcofeminist and a strong ally to sex workers and LGBTIQA+ peers. She is passionate about empowering women and femme identifying people with harm reduction tools and knowledge and human rights advocacy.
Emily also has a special interest in supporting people in prison who use and inject drugs and she provides peer-based harm reduction education in men and women’s prisons.
Emily has in-depth knowledge regarding safer injection of illicit and licit drugs, as well as extensive experience with the Australian opiate pharmacotherapy program. Emily loves community and is passionate about peer power and authentic peer leadership.
