Kane Race is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He has conducted ground-breaking social and cultural research on gay men’s evolving responses to the HIV epidemic, especially in the context of developments in the meanings and identities of antiretroviral drugs and other technological developments, such as those that occurring in digital culture. He has also conducted research into cultures and practices of sexualised drug use among gay and bisexual men and LGBTQ individuals in Australia, as well as the broader social and cultural politics of drugs in consumer societies, and harm reduction theory and practice. He has published widely across the fields of HIV prevention and education, drug policy and critical drug studies, cultural studies and sexualities, and is the author of three books, including Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the queer politics of drugs (Duke University Press 2009), and The Gay Science: intimate experiments with the problem of HIV (Routledge, 2018). In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
