Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency
The potential of sexualised drug use to enact the queer body is largely unaccounted for within the expert public health knowledges where ‘chemsex’ is produced as a predominantly cisgender gay male practice harmful to health. Underpinned by such logics, COVID-19 prevention measures in 2020–2021 limited urban nightlife, which can be thought of as a queer ‘intimate infrastructure’ restricting chemsex to the home. Such changes in routine afforded by public health emergencies provide a particularly clear glimpse into the emergent and situated production of queer bodies.
