Souls Forum: The Black AIDS Epidemic

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Acknowledgments

Marlon M. Bailey and Darius Bost would like to thank Kaleb Anderson for their research assistance with the forum.

Notes

1 See “Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi’s Sarcoma among Haitians in the United States,” MMWR, 31, no. 26 (July 9, 1982), 353–4; “Unexplained Immunodeficiency and Opportunistic Infections in Infants – New York, New Jersey, California,” MMRW, 31, no. 49 (December 17, 1982), 665–7.

2 Mardge Cohen, “Natural History of HIV Infection in Women,” Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 24, no. 4 (December 1, 1997): 743–58.

3 See the Centers for Disease Control website: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html#refd (accessed October 27, 2017).

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Notes on contributors

Marlon M. Bailey

Marlon M. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Marlon's book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2013, and was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association in 2014. Marlon has published in American Quarterly, GLQ, Signs, Feminist Studies, Souls, Gender, Place, and Culture, The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, AIDS Patient Care & STDs, LGBT Health, and several book collections.

Darius Bost

Darius Bost is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. His book, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (Chicago, 2018), is an interdisciplinary study of black gay art and activism during the early era of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.

Jennifer Brier

Jennifer Brier is Professor of History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis (UNC, 2009), and curator of the traveling public history exhibition, “Surviving and Thriving; AIDS, Politics, and Culture.”

Angelique Harris

Angelique Harris is associate professor of Sociology in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at Marquette University, and the author of AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: Making the Wounded Whole (Peter Lang, 2010).

Johnnie Ray Kornegay

Johnnie Ray Kornegay III is the Mobilization Director of The Counter Narrative Project, an Atlanta-based black gay men's advocacy group committed to the use of storytelling to effect social change.

Linda Villarosa

Linda Villarosa is a longtime health journalist and Assistant Professor and Chair of journalism at the City College of New York. She has written extensively about the HIV/AIDS pandemic, most recently “America's Hidden HIV Epidemic” published in New York Times magazine in 2017.

Dagmawi Woubshet

Dagmawi Woubshet is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS (Johns Hopkins, 2015). Email: [email protected].

Marissa Miller

Marissa Miller is a Senior Director of Strategic Projects for Envision Consulting and the Lead Strategic Director for the National Trans Visibility March. She is a former staff member at NMAC in Washington D.C. Marissa is nationally recognized as an advocate for human rights, social justice, health equity, and LGBTQ equality. Marissa has worked for the last 15 years on the local, national and international levels to improve access to treatment and care for transgender people and people living with HIV, and to erase stigma and discrimination through education, policy, advocacy, and visibility.

Dana D. Hines

Dana D. Hines, PhD, RN is known as an emerging nursing leader in transgender health and her work on issues related to access to HIV care, affirming environments of care, and cultural competency training and education for clinicians. Prior to entering academia Dr. Hines worked for the Marion County Public Health Department in Indiana as a HIV surveillance coordinator and clinical quality program manager. During this time, she led several health disparities projects aimed at improving engagement in HIV care.