PROMPT:
Comparatively examine the distinctive histories and methods of Black and Indigenous HIV/AIDS organizing in North America. How did histories and politics specific to Indigenous communities, or to Black communities, inform how Indigenous or Black people organized against HIV/AIDS? Notably, how did LGBTQ+ members become leaders within Black and Indigenous HIV/AIDS movements; and how did they contribute to their movement’s distinctiveness?
You may choose to focus your writing somewhat more on Black or Indigenous HIV/AIDS organizing, as a main case. However, your essay must include comparative analysis, and you should draw from comparative analysis when making your arguments and conclusions. (my suggestion would be to focus on the need for kinship in both groups and how relationality/solidarity is expressed differently)
While writing, you may wish to note how these communities, and their encounters with HIV/AIDS were shaped by such factors as racism, colonization, economic injustice, healthcare inequalities, and/or gender and sexual oppression; as well as by multi-generational legacies of resistance, resilience, care, empowerment, and creative work for liberation. (slavery and residential schools worked to strip both communities of basic epsitemic rights)
At some point, state how you think Indigenous and Black HIV/AIDS organizing proved to be distinct from HIV/AIDS movements that arose under white leadership. If Black or Indigenous HIV/AIDS organizing offers any lessons to HIV/AIDS movements more broadly, also feel free to state what those are.
CONTENT:
This course instructs that HIV/AIDS requires *intersectional* analysis because like all disease HIV/AIDS is a social epidemic:
– The social determinants of health reveal that inequalities (racism, colonialism, classism, sexism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia) increase health risks and reduce health care for members of oppressed groups. The same inequalities decrease health risks and enhance health care for members of privileged groups.
– When HIV/AIDS first circulated within groups that were already socially marginalized, their further marginalization by disease led them to organize not only against AIDS, but simultaneously against the social inequalities that blocked their access to good health and collective liberation. (ppl diagnosed w AIDS were judged heavily for contracting disease whether it be their sexual oreintation or “lack” of hygenie)
*Please consider these core teachings and discuss them in a manner that is appropriate to your chosen prompt and your response.*
FORMAT:
-4-5 pages
-4 page essays must include four full pages of prose. Please do not submit more than 5 pages of prose (with the exception of adding a few overflow lines or sentences on a sixth page).
-Times New Roman 12 pt. font (or similar size)
-Double-spaced
-Numbered pages
-References Cited page (citations do not need to be formal, just require name of work and authours)
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
the files i have attached below are fundamental to creating the analysis. please read and use all of them to make comparisons and/or point out differences in the Indigenous and Black community HIV/AIDS organizing .
pls if possible use key words such as:
-intersectionality or intersectional
-epistemic violence/privlege
-cultural identity
-intergenerational trauma
-solidarity
-kinship/relationality
-reconciliation
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