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.
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.
Practice Guide: Person-First Language Guide for Criminal Legal Reform Advocates & Allies
A practical guide for using person-first language as a tool to reduce stigma and reshape how criminal legal systems define people.
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 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.
Podcast Episode: HIV in Black Life — Then, Now, & Next — SisterLove, Inc. Visible & Unseen
A systems-level conversation examining HIV in Black life across history, current realities, and future possibilities—centering equity, leadership, and accountability.
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.
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.
Video Interview: Revolutionary Health Live - Robert Suttle on HIV Decriminalization
A public health conversation that frames HIV decriminalization as a necessary systems reform grounded in science, equity, and human rights.

