Black feminist geographies of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica

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Jallicia Jolly

Jallicia Jolly is a post-doctoral fellow and incoming Assistant Professor in American Studies and Black Studies at Amherst College. Dr. Jolly researchers and teachers at the intersection of racialized health disparities, Black women's health and political participation, HIV/AIDS and intersectionality, reproductive (in)justice and feminist social movements in the African diaspora. She is working on her first book manuscript, Ill Erotics: Black Caribbean Women and Self-Making in the Time of HIV/AIDS, an ethnographic and oral history study of the erotic lives and grassroots mobilization of young Black Jamaican women living and loving with HIV/AIDS. Her work has been supported by The Fulbright Scholar Program, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, National Women’s Studies Association, Yale University’s Sarah Pettit Fund, and the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities. Dr. Jolly is invested in applying her community-based research on health, equity, and justice to informed social action.