The call for papers is now open for the submission of articles for the dossier “STIs/HIV/AIDS, gender and sexualities: experiences, subjectivities and politicizations,” to be published by the journal Ártemis (Qualis A2), a biannual scientific journal linked to the Graduate Program in Literature at the Federal University of Paraíba. Articles will be accepted until May 30, 2025. The dossier will be published in the second semester of 2025. The dossier editors are professors and researchers Mónica Franch (UFPB), Claudia Mora (UERJ), Ivia Maksud (FIOCRUZ), Felipe Rios (UFPE), and Lírio Ferreira Nascimento (UFRN).
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This dossier aims to bring together research, experience reports, and artistic productions focusing on HIV/AIDS as a social fact, a producer of discourses and practices that regulate and intersect gender and sexualities. It also covers the social and symbolic implications of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), as well as reflections on multispecies relationships raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. Our starting point is the significant socio-anthropologically inspired literature on the intersections between AIDS, gender, and sexuality, and its contributions in terms of making visible the multiple experiences and challenges of living with HIV, understanding the meanings attributed to diverse identities and sexual practices, and their forms of politicization. We also consider the interpretative key of epidemics of meaning and their effects in terms of the production and maintenance of stigma and discrimination.
At this moment, when policies to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic have been characterized by investment in biomedical actions to the detriment of structural actions that promote and guarantee human rights, combined with the advance of conservatism, we expect to receive articles that allow us to understand and deepen discussions about the entanglement between the spheres of gender and sexualities (their expressions and regulations), subjectivities, and sexual politics. In this sense, we intend to encourage dialogue around the following topics: the level of individual subjectivities and the social and sexual interactions involving people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS; long-term care and its effects; social perceptions of public policies, such as Combined Prevention; the production of alternative forms of communication and prevention by civil society; dissident sexualities, resistances, subjectivities, risk management, and identity production; the understanding of stigma and inequalities based on gender, class, race, generation, sexuality, and serological status; activism, movements, and political agencies around HIV/AIDS and their interfaces with the sex workers’ movement, LGBTQIAP+ movement, women’s movement, among others; intersections of gender and sexuality, and silences related to STIs (syphilis, HPV, viral hepatitis);
Possibilities and limits of research or artistic productions around sexualities (digital technologies); dilemmas concerning the possibilities of new pandemics and the renewal of moral panics and necropolitics.
Check the guidelines for manuscript preparation here; the journal accepts a maximum of three authors per article and only one submission per author; articles must be anonymized and sent to the email artemis.aids.dossie@gmail.com.
Text originally published on the Revista Ártemis website.