AIDS and the Distribution of Crises

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‘Who cares if you're poz right now?’: Barebackers, HIV and COVID‐19

“…García‐Iglesias and Nagington ( 2020 ), for example echo Jeffrey Week's quote that ‘AIDS was the disease of the gays, the prostitutes, the intravenous drug users, and all those who belonged to the already stigmatised groups of society’ ( 1981 [2012], 381). They suggest that early descriptions of the AIDS pandemic acknowledged the emergence of multiple epidemics which helped to illuminate the uneven distribution of illness (Cheng et al, 2020 ). In particular, García‐Iglesias and Nagington ( 2020 ) suggest that the early images associated with the AIDS crisis (e.g.…”

“…ACT UP New York) occurred. As Cheng et al ( 2020 ) suggest, AIDS crises are diverse and manifest unevenly across time, history and geolocation, and, in many cases, crises are ongoing.…”

“… 4 4 We establish the separation between the AIDS crisis (see previous footnote) and the current context of HIV, which starts after the development of ART in 1996 and continues, today, with the availability of effective treatment and prevention mechanism. We remain aware, however, that this separation ignores the fact that, for many communities, such as Black communities or trans people, HIV remains a crisis to this day (see Cheng et al, 2020). …”

Disease and Discrimination in Goa: COVID-19 in the Afterlife of AIDS

“…Vaccines are promised.’ Indeed, what McClurg reckons with here is how viral outbreaks become public crises to be managed by state administrations. The designation of an event as a crisis creates ‘an occasion for judgment, an opportunity to render power,’ state the editors of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Cheng, Juhasz and Shahani 2020, 1). In other words, crisis management as an administrative tool of authority can result in the manipulative demonisation of an individual or community.…”

‘Healthy Publics’ and the pedagogy of It’s a Sin

“…As such, these homogeneous image cultures collapse the need for a queer politics that resists institutional messages that neglect social and cultural perspectives of healthy futures. These include the need for systemic changes to healthcare practices; the need to foreground anti-racist and anti-xenophobic conversations through the 'end of AIDS' platform (Cheng et al, 2020); and the need to speak from community need rather than institutional idealisation of the technologically determined future which features as a 'body without organs' (Deleuze and Guattari, 1983) for queer communities who continue to struggle with HIV transmission. No doubt, these communities will remain in precarious positions long after the 'end of AIDS' has expired in the cultural images of the 'Ending HIV' bioscientific imaginary.…”