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.
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.
Podcast Appearance: The Mental Illness Happy Hour with Paul Gilmartin
This conversation documents how HIV criminalization extends beyond legal punishment to shape mental health, identity, and survival long after incarceration.
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This first-person account documents the lived consequences of HIV criminalization and the ways outdated laws transform health status into state punishment.
Blog: HIV Stigma - Where Do We Go From Here?
A reflective essay examining HIV stigma and the structural conditions that sustain it, written at a moment when the movement was asking what must change next.
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: Love, Stigma, and the Law with Robert Suttle
This conversation documents the long-term personal and structural consequences of HIV criminalization, including how law and stigma continue to shape intimacy, identity, and autonomy after punishment ends.
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.
Blog: Balancing Hope, Joy, and Challenge: Navigating Life on the Registry
A recap of a Restorative Action Alliance webinar where Robert Suttle joined other speakers to discuss life on the sex offense registry through the lens of lived experience, advocacy, and resilience.
Blog: Black. Gay. HIV. Criminalized.
A narrative reflection published for HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day that examines the criminalization of Black gay men living with HIV.
Video Feature: POSITIVE DESTINATIONS: Robert’s Story - Produced by HIV Justice Network
A documented personal narrative reflecting on HIV criminalization, survival, and the long arc of justice work.
Podcast Episode: HIV is not a crime - From HIV Unmuted Produced by International AIDS Society
A global podcast episode documenting how HIV criminalization has reshaped lives across different countries and legal systems.

