Full Description
This edited volume brings together perspectives from scholars, lawyers, and activists to examine the HIV justice movement in present day - particularly the push to abolish HIV criminalization.
As debates around reform versus abolition have electrified political discourse surrounding public safety, surveillance, and funding for law enforcement, contributors to this volume provide an intervention in public policy and grassroots organizing in an age of increased repression. Although the chance of passing on HIV is now zero when the viral load is suppressed, there are still currently 34 U.S. states that criminalize HIV exposure, using laws that were implemented early on in the epidemic due to stigma and bias. As surveillance technologies and the interconnectedness of public health and law enforcement increase, contributors argue, so do new dangers in the carceral state.
Ultimately, this book provides a racial justice lens for analyzing and understanding HIV criminalization and speaks to the continued reckoning in the United States around issues of racial justice and the role of racism in public health and mass incarceration. Readers will be left with a vision of the movement's future and an archive of the HIV decriminalization movement that captures the deepest desires and sacred visions of those who have defiantly resisted.
Contents
Introduction: Constructing the Pasts, Presents and Futures of HIV, Race and Criminalization
Andrew Spieldenner (IN, COUNTRY) and Charles Stephen (IN, COUNTRY)
Part I Law & Legal Interventions
1. "What are you pretending not to know today?" : The Conundrum of Abolishing HIV Criminalization
S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal (IN, COUNTRY)
2. Identifying the Intersections: The Keys to Building a BIPOC Movement to Fight HIV Criminalization
Deion Hawkins (IN, COUNTRY)
3. Serophobia in Mexico: Criminalizing the Danger of Contagion
Axel Bautista (IN, COUNTRY)
4. Framing HIV as a Racial Justice Issue Tied to Bodily Autonomy
Eric Paulk (IN, COUNTRY)
5. Racism, Not Risk, Drives the Enforcement of HIV Criminal Laws
Brad Sears (IN, COUNTRY) and Nathan Cisneros (IN, COUNTRY)
PART II: Narratives of Embodied Knowledge
6. Fighting the Fight: Robert Suttle on His Personal Story and Journey to Decriminalize HIV
Robert Suttle (IN, COUNTRY) and Michael Ward (IN, COUNTRY)
7. People Are Dying from Laws Criminalizing a Health Condition
Tiommi Luckett (IN, COUNTRY)
8. Weaponizing My Sex: How a Consensual Encounter Flirted with a Felony
Craig Washington (IN, COUNTRY)
9. You Care About HIV Criminalization—You Just Don't Know It Yet
Coleman Goode (IN, COUNTRY)
10. My World Stopped When I Was Charged with Criminal Exposure to HIV
Lashanda Salinas (IN, COUNTRY)
PART III: Criminalization's Many Roots and Branches
11. Slavery by Another Name: The Mass Incarceration of Black People in America
Vanessa Johnson (IN, COUNTRY)
12. Sex Work and HIV Criminalization
Cristine Sardina (IN, COUNTRY)
13. "Qué Bonita Mi Tierra": Latinx AIDS Activism and Decolonial Queer Praxis in 1980s New York and Puerto
Rico
René Esparza (IN, COUNTRY)
14. Connecting Employment and Employment Services to HIV Justice Movements
Mark Misrok (IN, COUNTRY)
15. The Public Health Police
Trevor Hoppe (IN, COUNTRY)
16. Molecular HIV Surveillance: Two Sides of the Same Coin, One Path to Harm
Kamaria Laffrey (IN, COUNTRY) and Andrew Spieldenner
17. COVID-19 and HIV: Sustaining HIV Gains and Building Back Better and Fairer HIV Responses
Naina Khanna (IN, COUNTRY)
PART IV: Public Memory and Cultural Practices
18. Abolition and Poetry
Catron Booker (IN, COUNTRY)
19. Remembering Kiyoshi Kuromiya
JD Davids (IN, COUNTRY)
20. ¡Presente!: Craig Harris and Joe Franco
Robert Vasquez Pacheco (IN, COUNTRY)
21. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Joshua Chambers-Letson (IN, COUNTRY)
PART V: Visions for a Society Without Bars
22. Policing Pandemics: The History and Culture of Carceral Pandemic Surveillance
Alexander McClelland (IN, COUNTRY), Colin Hastings (IN, COUNTRY), and Martin French (IN, COUNTRY)
23. Reasons to Celebrate a Hard-Fought Win in Illinois
Christian Felix Castro (IN, COUNTRY)
24. Black MSM, and the Fight to End HIV Disparities and Criminalization in Michigan
Jerron Totten (IN, COUNTRY)
25. Giving My Ghosts a Seat at the Table
Arya Jeipea Karijo (IN, COUNTRY)
26. I'm Going Out Like a Fucking Meteor
Craig G. Harris (IN, COUNTRY)
Epilogue
Andrew Spieldenner (IN, COUNTRY) and Charles Stephen (IN, COUNTRY)
Index
