Suttlepoints
Transforming Lived Experience into Leadership, Strategy, and Systems Change
Suttlepoints is a curated resource hub connecting analysis, lived experience, advocacy tools, and strategic insight across public health, policy, and community-based work. It is where ideas, practice, and purpose meet—designed to support learning, reflection, and action.
The Hub is organized by function, not chronology. Writing, media, and resources are grouped according to how they are meant to be used—whether to document lived experience, build leadership capacity, inform policy strategy, or support ethical public health practice.
The Five Pillars
The Hub organizes content across five core pillars:
Ending HIV Criminalization
Policy- and systems-focused resources examining HIV criminalization as a legal and public health failure, and outlining pathways for reform.
Public Health & Human Rights
Analysis exploring how law, health, and human rights intersect—centering institutional responsibility, equity, and accountability.
Leadership & Capacity Building
Trainings, tools, frameworks, and coalition-building resources designed to equip advocates, practitioners, and leaders to act within systems.
Storytelling & Media
Archived narratives, interviews, and reflections that document lived experience and movement history. These materials are preserved as record, not requirement.
Higher Education & Mentorship
Teaching, learning, and leadership development work connected to higher education and mentorship, growing intentionally over time.
Across all five pillars, the Hub reflects my commitment to translating lived experience into practical insight—supporting strategy, leadership, and more ethical public health responses without relying on repeated personal disclosure.
Facing HIV Criminalization: What to Know and Where to Start
HIV criminalization continues to impact people across the United States—often regardless of actual risk, scientific evidence, or engagement in care. This resource offers grounded guidance for understanding the landscape, preparing for potential legal harm, and identifying support, while recognizing the limits of what individuals can control within a punitive system.
Learning Platform: HIV Justice Academy - HIV Criminalization Online Course
This course equips advocates and leaders with the knowledge and strategies needed to challenge HIV criminalization as a systemic legal and public health failure.
Video Interview: The Recruiters with Tom Duane — Episode 3
This conversation documents how lived experience, political context, and public visibility intersect in efforts to challenge HIV criminalization and stigma.
Feature Article: Robert Suttle in The Independent – As Told To / Life Stories
This first-person account documents the lived consequences of HIV criminalization and the ways outdated laws transform health status into state punishment.
LGBTQ&A Podcast - HIV is Not a Crime: Making the Case for Ending HIV Criminalization
This conversation documents how HIV criminalization functions as a system of fear and punishment that continues to shape queer lives long after the height of the AIDS crisis.
Podcast Appearance: Ask Dr. Drew
This conversation documents how HIV criminalization persists despite advances in treatment, and how policy reform efforts seek to realign law with contemporary public health realities.

