Suttlepoints: The Hub
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 organizes writing and resources across five core pillars:
Ending HIV Criminalization
Public Health & Human Rights
Leadership & Capacity Building
Storytelling & Media
Higher Education & Mentorship
Each pillar offers perspectives grounded in evidence, lived expertise, and systems awareness, supporting advocates, practitioners, students, and leaders seeking to deepen understanding and strengthen impact. Together, these resources reflect my commitment to translating lived experience into practical insight that informs strategy, leadership, and more ethical public health responses.
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This first-person account documents the lived consequences of HIV criminalization and the ways outdated laws transform health status into state punishment.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.

