Abstract
This autoethnographic report uses performative writing to explore significations of HIV as they relate to the study of thin, gay men. Specifically, I investigate how my own HIV-related fears speak to and against marginalizing discourses that frame cultural understandings of HIV, gay men, and body types. The essay concludes with a discussion that explains how performative interventions and narrative blueprints can be used to challenge misrepresentations of gay men in relation to HIV and AIDS.
Keywords
Performative utterancePlague (disease)NarrativeBlueprintGender studiesHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)SociologyHomosexualityParallelsRelation (database)AestheticsHistoryArtVisual artsLiteratureMedicine
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- 2006
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-19
- Citations
- 40
- Access
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Ragan Fox
(2006).
Skinny Bones #126-774-835-29: Thin Gay Bodies Signifying a Modern Plague.
Text and Performance Quarterly
, 27
(1)
, 3-19.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10462930601045956
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- 10.1080/10462930601045956