Looking Again: The Quilt, the Gaze, and Queer Remembering
David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.
What are the Queer Medical Humanities?
MedHums 101: Why ‘queer’ critical medical humanities scholarship and practice? Chase Ledin and Benjamin Dalton signpost the emergence of the queer medical humanities.
How to be an activist-researcher?
David Woodhead reflects on his past research experience and explores the relationship between activist and researcher identities, priorities, and possibilities
Co-Production and Culturally Sensitive HIV Health Promotion
Chase Ledin and Ese Johnson discuss the role of co-production in HIV health promotion and working with ethnic minority communities.
Remembering Edinburgh’s AIDS Experience during COVID-19
Reiko Kanazawa reflects on a workshop series about Scotland and AIDS crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organising a workshop during a pandemic is daunting. So also is talking about AIDS while each country is
HIV/AIDS Ecclesiology and Ruptures of the Body
Samuel Ernest reflects on HIV/AIDS and the study of the Catholic Church since the 1980s In Christian theology, HIV/AIDS has been considered primarily within the context of ecclesiology, or the study of the church,
Capturing Chronic Illness: Bearing Witness through Photography
Donna McCormack and Ingrid Young discuss their photography project, Capturing Chronic Illness
‘Archiving an Epidemic’: Book Review
Louisa Hann reviews Robb Hernández’s Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Avant-Garde (New York: New York University Press, 2019). The broad and ever-expanding domain of HIV/AIDS arts and performance scholarship has faced
The Problem of Queer Sex and AIDS Theatre
Ash John discusses tensions between representing sexual desire and the moral histories of HIV/AIDS in contemporary AIDS theatre. What we think of now as the AIDS Crisis has become both a cultural and historical
Blood Donation Policy, Activism and the Un/‘Official’ HIV/AIDS Record
Benjamin Weil explores the history of blood donor activism in the UK.