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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 7

This Friday at 12PST!

UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education @ctcre-ucsf.bsky.social · Aug 7

Join CTCRE on August 8th from 12:00–1:00 PM PT for the second talk in our Critical Drug Commodities Speaker Series.

For those unable to attend in person, remote access will be available via Zoom.

Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks to everyone who’s held me in tenderness through the blur. In this slow return to clarity, I carry your presence with deep gratitude 🤓

Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 5

These glasses. It’s wild how the body heals itself layer by layer. After a retinal rupture, I’m now preparing for cataract surgery. Vision is slowly finding its way back. The retina is so fragile: where sight begins, maybe even the soul. The body’s quiet repair feels nothing short of miraculous.

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 1

From simulated kitchen labs to opioid marketing jingles and harm reduction artifacts, visitors are invited to question dominant narratives and engage new ways of sensing crisis and imagining response.

#4sSeattle25 #HarmReduction #PharmaArchives #MultisensoryExhibition #OIDA #OCCA #OpioidCrisis

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 1

Drawing from rare corporate documents and grassroots harm reduction archives, this interactive experience uncovers the entanglements of Big Pharma, regulatory failure, and community care.

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 1

Step inside an immersive exhibition that reimagines the opioid overdose crisis through sound, touch, scent, and story.

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Aug 1

Coming Soon: A Multisensory Exploration of Pharmaceutical Industry and Harm Reduction Archives in the Context of Crisis

Opening September 4th | Seattle, Washington (4S M&D)

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Jul 30

I don’t have a boat but live in SF Bay area. Let us know if you need anything!

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Jul 23

Can you handle the flavor of industry secrets? Stay tuned. Thurs, September 4 | 10 - 4pm

#4sSeattle25 #MakingAndDoing #EmbodiedCritique #PublicScholarship #ArchivalInterventions #CriticalMaking #STS #DrugPolicy #OpioidOverdoseCrisis #FeelThinkDo #IndustrySecrets #SensoryStudies

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Jul 23

We’re bringing the archive out of the page and into the body and slowly dissolving the line between object and experience, harm and desire.

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sneak peek: Making something strange, sweet, and a little unsettling for #4sSeattle25.

This critique that melts on your tongue. Using 3D forms and flavor, we’re turning archival documents into an embodied experience by inviting new ways to understand opioid industry violence and marketing.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Jun 26

When you hear someone advocating for acceleration, ask: accelerating toward what? Today’s techno-accelerationists want us to rush forward into a political order that explicitly favors their interests, writes D&S’s @jakemetcalf.bsky.social‬. www.techpolicy.press/trump-20-run...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jun 16

Excellent ruling from Judge Young.
This is a #NoKings ruling ❌👑.

So, what happens next?

Summary: it can be appealed by Trump DOJ to the 1st Circuit, and to the Supreme Court.

And some chance, but decently unlikely, that the (corrupt) SCOTUS would then overturn this and kill the grants again. 1/

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 16

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

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Dan Alfaros Kabella 🏳️‍⚧️ @dankabella.bsky.social · May 23

I’m so proud of our students in the SF Bridge Program at UCSF and SFSU. You’ve had to navigate the rigorous demands of academia & the emotional weight of watching institutions meant to support you falter. And still—you showed up with care, brilliance, and strength. I’m honored to witness your paths.