Who is HIV For?

The author is a white, HIV-negative man who organizes public events around HIV for both work and community. People with HIV are becoming further sidelined as social justice marketing campaigns and pharmaceutical interventions attempt to and successfully negate material differences between being HIV...

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Veröffentlicht in:Women's studies quarterly 2014-10, Vol.42 (3/4), p.333-338
1. Verfasser: Kerr, Ted
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The author is a white, HIV-negative man who organizes public events around HIV for both work and community. People with HIV are becoming further sidelined as social justice marketing campaigns and pharmaceutical interventions attempt to and successfully negate material differences between being HIV positive and HIV negative. Initiatives were on the table that called for people with HIV to be quarantined or tattooed. Today this plays out through HIV criminalization. In the US people with HIV are at risk of prosecution under targeted laws or under other criminal statutes. Bodies are labeled as deadly weapons, spitting is being called manslaughter, and messy break-ups are resulting in jail terms. In such a climate, for people living with HIV there is no room to be neutral about their status, and neutrality in fact undoes the work poz folks have 336 Ted Kerr done to affirm identities around their status. Neutral becomes a choice for only the HIV-negative person, a way to navigate feelings and fears around HIV.
ISSN:0732-1562
1934-1520
1934-1520
DOI:10.1353/wsq.2014.0043