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Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by » The week: 25 May buggery.org

» The week: 25 May buggery.org — Sat, 25 May 2013 07:01:52 +0000

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Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by Brent

Brent — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:33:45 +0000

Great article Daniel. I just had an online message here in London where I was told I should be ashamed of myself for being a failure, that I should not be online looking for sex, that I was repugnant and disturbed all because my profile was titled Poz Top. And people wonder why we are running a stigma campaign.

Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:48:27 +0000

Great article

Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by Stormy

Stormy — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:04:12 +0000

OMFG. I thought I had seen some bad ones (smartphone chats) but this takes the cake. I think some of the genres of interaction developing on these sites require urgent intervention. You can talk about this as stigma, (and I really appreciate all your work on that), but in some ways I find genre a useful frame here as well: emergent conventions of interaction that shape expectations and response repertoires and habits of exchange etc. Here your refusal of the question constitutes you as HIV positive, which sets in train all those other worrying associations you discuss. This is a problem in the realm of genre: the genres emerging on these sites that people use to negotiate [often unprotected] sex. My other “favourite” these days – very similar to what you are dealing with here and definitely “on the rise” – is the throwaway line, usually posed as an afterthought, i.e after the deal is more or less clinched: “Are you safe and neg?” To which I always like to reply “No, I am safe and poz”. Although more often than not that “unclinches” the deal.

Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by Grant

Grant — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:05 +0000

Wow, that person is awful!

Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by badblood

badblood — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:16:07 +0000

Thanks! I am just reading your post on PrEP – apologies for responding here, I don’t have a Google+ account to comment. I think I am a bit more optimistic about the present state of community and prevention — but then I am in Australia and they’re both a lot better resourced here. I found the idea of PrEP as an ‘amendment to the sexual constitution’ striking and productive. I have another PrEP post coming up and I’ll quote you on that!

Comment on HIV scandal on Jack’d: boy, that escalated quickly. by Jason McDonald

Jason McDonald — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:06:31 +0000

Awesome article/blog! I love your work, alot.

Comment on Biomedical prevention: a revolution with empty streets by jmwillis

jmwillis — Sun, 12 May 2013 12:20:10 +0000

It seems like a similar problem to what we are investigating re Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations, except here it’s not the funders who are asking the org to consultation but decades of stale and calcified practice, so now the orgs themselves want to reinvigorate a notion of community governance that is not just about consulting (or consultationing) but entering into a genuine service-requirement dialectic with the community. We are now looking at the metaphor of social enterprise where the object is to deliver services, but also to deliver social good in the many forms of autonomous yet interdependent and engaged and evolving community (trying really hard all the while to avoid the language of community development aka neo-colonialist missionary work which builds the community in the image of the oppressor).

Comment on Biomedical prevention: a revolution with empty streets by badblood

badblood — Sun, 12 May 2013 03:08:57 +0000

For sure, and I’m spending quite a bit of time in this piece looking at how different kinds of talk function, especially to frame the issue. For clarity I’m borrowing my terms (say/do) from the ‘do as I say not as I do’ idiom. In some other writing I’m doing, I’m thinking about how the contingency inherent in community-based HP work has been lost, and the principles and strategies we draw upon have been punctualised: in a funded service relationship defined by a central concern for strategic communications, if you’ll excuse an odd locution, we Consultation (noun as verb) rather than actually consulting (transitive verb). It’s a mandatory requirement, the community organisational equivalent of emotional work, a performance demanded by the funder as a matter of genre recognition. Consultation is an obstacle to actually consulting. So I’m hoping to bracket out the stated label and intentions and look at what’s actually being done.

Comment on Biomedical prevention: a revolution with empty streets by Jon Willis

Jon Willis — Sat, 11 May 2013 20:47:16 +0000

Nice piece, although most idiosyncratic definition of functionalism I’ve seen to date. Talk functions, even talk by VAC – hence politics.