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"For many, gay men are synonymous with promiscuity - associated with orgies, anonymous sex, bathhouses, fetish and kink, and recreational party drugs. Gay men are watched by police and public health institutions. There are commercial industries built around gay desire like porn and apps. For three decades, the gay community has promoted "safer sex" in order to prevent the transmission or acquisition of HIV. Often this "safer sex" meant to use a condom for every sex act with a man. The focus on condom use closed off discussions of oral sex, frottage, bondage, fisting, or other activities that did not require a condom to prevent the transmission or acquisition of HIV. Advances in HIV science have rapidly expanded this picture. Viral suppression and the usage of nPEP and PrEP are all highly effective. Using any of these technologies correctly will reduce the possibility of transmission or acquisition to near zero. A Pill for Promiscuity is a collection of academics, artists, and activists concerned with gay sex today in an age when medications can disrupt HIV transmission or acquisition"--

Introduction: Intercultural health communication studies / Andrew R. Spieldenner, Gloria N. Pindi and Satoshi Toyosaki -- Health narratives and body politics on the margins : proposing six principles of "EMBODY" with cultural others / Yea-Wen Chen and Sarah Parsloe -- Queer(ing) spaces : sexualities as critical intersections among health and intercultural communication / Shinsuke Eguchi -- The construction of women and their health across cultures / Katie D. Scott and Tina M. Harris -- Moving beyond awareness social media in health and policy communication : the case of the Black Women's Health Imperative's Black women Vote 2018 national health policy agenda / Annette Madlock-Gatison -- "I am not sick, I'm hairy" : cultural constructions of women's bodies in the ob/gyn Exam / Gloria N. Pindi -- People of color don't get that : an autoethnography of living with celiac disease / Tomeka M. Robinson -- HIV drugs (are) like my birth control pill : lived narratives of black and Latino MSM in an urban American context / Ambar Basu, Patrick J. Dillon, Shaunak Sastry and Nivethitha Ketheeswaran -- Social media as a transformative force in intercultural health communications : a case study of the BADASS Army / Spring Cooper and Chris Palmedo -- Mexican-American women, prenatal testing, and definitions of fetal health : challenging social perceptions of what is "healthy" / Leandra Hinojosa Hernández -- Health in the margins : cultural borders in contestation / Mohan Dutta and Satveer Kaur-Gill -- Transcending in/visibility, isolation, and stigma : trauma-inforced and culture-centric mental health / Lara Lengel, Adam Smidi and Nora Abdul-Aziz -- Searching for a good death / Jillian A. Tullis -- Critical intercultural health communication pedagogy : an autoethnographic approach / Satoshi Toyosaki, Patrick Seick, Shelby Swafford, Darren J. Valenta and Lindy Wagner -- Photovoice and photobodies : public pedagogies of health / Phillip E. Wagner -- When cultural identity impacts health decisions : using Grey's anatomy to teach communication theory of identity and agency-identity model / Kallia O. Wright -- Intercultural health communication studies : looking forward / Satoshi Toyosaki and Andrew R. Spieldenner.

As a method, we use autoethnography to explore coalition politics from our positions in academia. We use autoethnography to examine how similar identity categories presume sameness and can lead to conflict within institutions. This autoethnography looks at how coalitional politics were learned, as well as how coalitional politics are practiced within the institutional spaces of the university and academic discipline. In particular, we examine how we have experienced conflict and competition, as well as ways that we continue to build coalitional spaces. Through this, we place autoethnography as an explicitly political methodology.

"This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living. Contributions from a diverse group of international scholars interrogate and engage with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and local consumptions of the term "post-AIDS" from the perspective of meaning-making on health, illness, and well-being. The chapters critique and connect meanings of "post-AIDS" to topics such as neoliberalism; race, gender and advocacy; disclosure; relationships and intimacy; stigma and structural violence; family and community; migration; work; survival; normativity; NGOs, transnational organizations; aging and end of life care; politics of ART and PrEP; mental illness; campaigns; social media and religion. Using a range of methodological tools, the scholarship herein asks how "post-AIDS" or the "End of the Epidemic" is communicated and made sense of in everyday discourse, what current meanings are circulated and consumed on and around HIV and AIDS, and provides thorough commentary and critique of a "post-AIDS" time. This book will be an essential read for scholars and students of health communication, sociology of health and illness, medical humanities, political science, and medical anthropology, as well as for policy makers and activists"--

For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and preventative pills such as PrEP and nPEP has massively reduced the risk of acquiring HIV. Yet some of the stigma around gay male promiscuity and bareback sex has remained, inhibiting open dialogues about sexual desire, risk, and pleasure. A Pill for Promiscuity brings together academics, artists, and activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era. Some offer personal perspectives on the value of promiscuity and the sexual communities it fosters, while others critique unequal access to PrEP and the increased role Big Pharma now plays in gay life. With a diverse group of contributors that includes novelist Andrew Holleran, trans scholar Lore/tta LeMaster, cartoonist Steve MacIsaac, and pornographic film director Mister Pam, this book asks provocative questions about how we might reimagine queer sex and sexuality in the 21st century

The Meaningful Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS (MIPA) has been at the core of the HIV response since the beginning of the HIV epidemic. In this study, we compare two community engagement activities concerned with molecular HIV surveillance (MHS) in the United States: one governmental and one community-led. We examine the consultative aspects of each one, especially as they relate to people living with HIV. We point to the community-based effort—which used a participatory praxis approach—as an example of MIPA. We derive two best practice principles from this research from the field.