Interview with Celeste Watkins-Hayes

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About the Author

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 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.

Notes

1 “Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Immunodeficiency among Female Sexual Partners of Males with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) – New York,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 31, no. 52 (1983): 697–8.

2 US CDC, “HIV/AIDS among Women,” https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/index.html.

3 US CDC, “Leading Causes of Death in Females, United States,” https://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/index.htm.

4 Cathy J. Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

5 Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241–99. Also see Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree, “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities,” Sociological Theory 28, no. 2 (2010): 129–49; Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge, 1990); Brittney Cooper, “Intersectionality,” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, ed. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth (Oxford University Press, 2015); Ange-Marie Hancock, “Intersectionality as a Normative and Empirical Paradigm,” Politics & Gender 3, no. 2 (2007): 248–54; Leslie McCall, “The Complexity of Intersectionality,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30 (2005): 1771–800; and Jennifer Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Duke University Press, 2019).

6 Frances Beal, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female,” in Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, ed. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (New Press, 1995), 146–55; Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 785–810; Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement,” in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 1983), 264–74; and Deborah K. King, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 1 (1988): 42–72.

7 Johanna Crane, Kathleen Quirk, and Ariane Van Der Straten, “‘Come Back When You’re Dying’: The Commodification of AIDS among California’s Urban Poor,” Social Science & Medicine 55, no. 7 (2002): 1115–27; Alyson O’Daniel, Holding On: African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS (University of Nebraska Press, 2016); John A. Updegraff, Shelley E. Taylor, Margaret E. Kemeny, and Gail E. Wyatt, “Positive and Negative Effects of HIV Infection in Women with Low Socioeconomic Resources,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 28, no. 3 (2002): 382–94.

8 US CDC, “HIV among Transgender People,” www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/transgender/index.html.

9 Tonia Poteat, Danielle German, and Colin Flynn, “The Conflation of Gender and Sex: Gaps and Opportunities in HIV Data among Transgender Women and MSM,” Global Public Health 11, no 7–8 (2016): 835–48.