...Christine Cynn In Francophone West Africa, bilateral and multilateral HIV prevention focuses on combating stigma, increasing awareness, and encouraging safer sexual practices, especially through the use of mass media. This approach works in the service of neoliberal mandates to produce African...

...Jamie Feldman Tom Kalin, Viruses as Nationalism, 1989 Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis Jamie Feldman Introduction and Theory The title of this article immediately raises two important questions: why look at the Gallo-Montagnier dispute at all...

...Alexandra Juhasz HZV TV (VIP Video Support Group, 1990) WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism and the Making of HIV TV Alexandra Juhasx Camcorders have brought television production to the neighborhoods: the playgrounds...

...Nathan Lee This piece reflects on the concept of “undetectable” through the double lens of HIV/AIDS discourse and the metaphysics of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. With the advent of antiretroviral therapy treatments for HIV infection that effectively reduce one's viral load to levels that elude...

... of governmentality. Shot in real time between 2002 and 2007, And I Do Survive takes as its subject the HIV-positive bisexual activist Michelle Lopez. Born in Trinidad, Lopez has been in the US for close to two decades now but has been unable to acquire citizenship because of a legal ban on HIV-positive immigrants...

... and does not cause laceration But there are serious 23 problems with the argument. When Gould says AIDS, he means HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. He also means unprotected het- erosexual penile-vaginal intercourse with an infected man, a point he makes once but not consistently...

... of the female body's objectification and also a catalyst for collectivization. Heather Davis argues that plastic is an opaque queerness, and Nathan Lee writes on the condition of being HIV undetectable as an optimistic imperceptible relationship to one's body. Across these texts, opacity operates...

... — and, subsequently, the splinter organization TAG (Treatment Action Group) — played in the US HIV/AIDS epi- demic between 1987 and 1996. It is also a film that can be ques- tioned. When viewed in relation to other recent documentaries dealing with gay men and AIDS in the US, How to Survive a Plague raises...

...) who is seen and not seen by science, medicine, and the health care system as it attempts to describe and manage HIV/AIDS. In “Beyond Cosmo: AIDS, Identity, and Inscrip- tions of Gender,” Paula Treichler argues that mainstream AIDS dis- course gathers and represents data in such a way...

... Aren’t. No. 30; pp. 113-137 Egger, Rebecca Deaf Ears and Dark Continents: Dorothy Richardson’s Cinematic Episte- mology. No. 30; pp. 5-33 Feldman, Jamie Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis. No. 28; pp. 101-133. Fletcher, Estelle S. A Review...

... 2. Adam Rolston, 1989. Crack-and-peel sticker, offset lithography. Also used as T-shirt. 86 groups” (defined by race, sex and class) in education on HIV trans- mission.12 Consider, for example, the benefit performance...

... transmitted by the blood, inducing progressive mutation-internally colonizing the body’s cells, which then work against the good of the body-cannot escape comparison with AIDS. It matches the “scien- tific” version of how HIV transforms the cells of the body: docking...

... to believe that Russell is flirting with her (he invites her to a party at his house) only to find out “the truth” when Russell suddenly learns of his friend’s HIV positive diagnosis. Thus, just after Russell gets his “shock,” so do Melissa and the show’s audience members...

... with a veritable excess of the visual. The screen is divided into four equal parts, suggesting both a wall of video monitors and also Warhol’s famed simultaneous projections. Hoolboom, a Toronto-based experimental filmmaker who has been HIV posi- tive since 1988, appears in the top right-hand frame...

... tells us that there is always a reason why a star falls or a body is ill . . . and religion does the same. —Poison “Nothing could be more meaningless than a virus,” notes Judith Williamson in an essay titled “Every Virus Tells a Story: The Mean- ings of HIV and AIDS.”23 Whatever destruction...

...Juanita Mohammed Ways women can contract HIV, from We Care: A Video for Care Providers of People Affected by AlDS (WAVE-Women’s Aids Video Enterprise, 1990). WAVE in the Media Environment: Camcorder Activism in AIDS Education Juanita Mohammed Being asked to write about...

... have AIDS, do you?" and then accuses Allie of implying that she, Dionne, is infected. In response to Dionne's incredulity, Allie explains the rationale for safer sex: "C'mon Dionne, lesbians aren't immune to HIV. You or I could've slept with someone who's been exposed, some...

... of HIV TV,” Camera Obscura, no. 28 (1992): 135 – 52. I list two of my own articles on the subject of activist video published in this journal to indicate that the field and Camera Obscura have supported scholarship on alternative feminist media; however, this body...

... in the women’s art movements of the 1970s and 1980s and in HIV/AIDS activist organizing. Younger members strove to emulate many of the practices associated with what Radhika Gaj- jala and Yeon Ju Oh have called “cyberfeminism 2.0” and also the prior work done by the moderators of the online forum...

... references AIDS/HIV. It’s a pornographic game, and it’s super homophobic. There is also one indie game from 1988 called Caper in the Castro that was only dis- tributed on LGBTQ bulletin board systems online. It was charity-­ ware, and the designer asked that if you downloaded the game that you donate...