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.
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.
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.
Panel Discussion: Centering Black Voices: Building an HIV Decriminalization Coalition Rooted in Racial Justice
A coalition-building conversation that examines how centering Black leadership and lived expertise creates durable strategies for ending HIV criminalization.
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.
Video Interview: Surface Level Podcast - What Are HIV Criminalization Laws? — With Robert Suttle
A systems overview video that explains how HIV criminalization laws operate, why they persist, and what reform requires from advocates and policymakers.
Educational Video: EHE Campaign (New Orleans) “Bounce to Zero” Conversation: HIV Criminalization
A public education video designed to address HIV stigma and misinformation by explaining HIV criminalization as a structural public health issue.
Podcast Episode (No. 5): “Is It a Crime?” From Zero Hour: A Global Conversation on Health and HIV
A global health podcast episode examining whether HIV criminalization aligns with science, public health goals, and equity.
Federal Roundtable: HIV is Not a Crime — Legal, Health & Equity Considerations
A federal public health roundtable examining HIV criminalization through legal, health, and equity lenses to support evidence-based systems reform.
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.
Policy Roundtable: Revolutionary Health Live — HIV Criminalization (Part II)
A continuation of an interdisciplinary policy discussion examining HIV criminalization through legal, public health, and equity frameworks.
Policy Roundtable: Revolutionary Health Live — HIV Criminalization (Part I)
A multi-disciplinary roundtable examining HIV criminalization through legal, public health, and equity frameworks to support evidence-based reform.