21 June 2023 With the support from Love Alliance, INPUD is seeking to support a Gender Focal Point to increase the capacity of women who use drugs and the International Network of Women who Use Drugs (INWUD). The Gender Focal Point will initiate and mobilise online engagement with the community of women who use drugs, coordinate online events and engage… Read More »INPUD is hiring Gender Focal Point for INWUD
We are excited to announce the recipients of the second annual Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award for 2023 are Jessica Morales from Guatemala and Kira Watson from Scotland. The award is dedicated to honouring the memory of Jude Byrne – a fearless drug user activist who fought tirelessly for the rights of people who use drugs. The award is… Read More »Second Annual Jude Byrne Award Recognises Outstanding Emerging Female Leaders
Too often women are silenced and ignored. INWUD’s blog aims to create space for women to express themselves, to be heard and acknowledged. It is a platform to share life stories, views, experiences and to inspire each other to reclaim what is rightfully ours: our rights and freedoms to be who we are. I am a recovering addict. My name… Read More »Women talk about their use of drugs.
Born in 1999 in Dagoretti, Nairobi Kenya, I was abandoned and left under the care of MY grandmother who unlike majority of grandparents who love care and treasure their grandchildren, MY case was different since I was mistreated and malnourished by my maternal grandmother. My name is Rita Nyambura and this is my Recovery story. In 2012 at the age… Read More »My case story: Rita Nyambura
Hi there! My name is Marina, I am here to tell you the history of how Cannabis changed the course of my life. I grew up in a rural and remote area called Colonia Aurora, which has a very small population. We had a pharmacy at home and very early in my life my father taught me that the medicine… Read More »Magic green medicine
This will tell you where I was and where I am now. I started using crystal methamphetamine, also known as known “TIK,” when I was 27 years old. I had recently lost my mother, who meant the world to me and was my everything. My mother’s death seemed like the center of my universe had been taken from my heart… Read More »My name is Natalie Jacobs, and this is my experience as a substance user.
I am sharing my story in the hopes that it can shed some light on the complicated relationship between sexual trauma and drug use, and how women who use drugs support each other in navigating this. I was in a sexually abusive relationship from the age of 15 to 18. The relationship didn’t start with abuse and assault, but it… Read More »INWUD Narcofeminist Blog Post – Anonymous
Diminished sense of self, dependency, deteriorating health, and delipidated contact with reality – the overwhelming feeling that came rushing subsequent to when I questioned my life choices. That unwinnable rationalization in my head between internalized stigma and empathy for self. In February 2020, I got enrolled in a master’s program as a young woman in her twenties becoming a psychologist… Read More »Accepting vulnerabilities – breaking free of emulated standards that demarcate us.
I recently watched a lecture from Kristen J Sollee’s on her book Witches, Sluts and Feminists. I first thought she was preaching to me, the converted. Already a feminist academic who appreciates scholarly research into the demonisation of women and our sexuality. What was this ‘witch feminism?’ Why does that sound so appealing? I come from a long line ofstrong… Read More »Junkies, sluts and feminists: where are we in the witch legacy?
“I don’t want a woman who takes drugs.” Over the past 10 years of being a drug user, I have come to anticipate and expect this statement. Either from a man I’m dating, or from one who feels the need to tell me anyway. What’s always interesting is that 9 out of 10 times, the person who has said this… Read More »Owning My Pleasure – Jessica Spratt