The dossier \u201cSTIs, HIV\/AIDS, gender, and sexualities: experiences, subjectivations, and politicizations,\u201d organized by M\u00f3nica Franch (UFPB), Claudia Mora (CLAM\/IMS\/UERJ), Ivia Maksud (Fiocruz), Lu\u00eds Felipe Rios (UFPE), and L\u00edrio Ferreira do Nascimento (UFRN), has just been released, published in Revista Artemis, v.40, n.1 (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The dossier brings together research, experience reports, and artistic productions that analyze HIV\/AIDS as a social phenomenon, capable of producing discourses and practices that permeate issues related to gender and sexualities. The studies that make up the dossier discuss social and symbolic aspects related to the HIV\/AIDS epidemic, emphasizing stigma and discrimination, especially in health services and LGBTQIAPN+ sociability spaces, both in-person and digital. Part of the research gathered here was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, which influenced both the methodological paths and the psychosocial experiences involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The dossier dialogues with a broad socio-anthropological tradition dedicated to the relations between AIDS, gender, and sexuality, giving visibility to the diverse ways of living with HIV, aiming to contribute to the understanding of the meanings attributed to sexual identities and practices, as well as their processes of politicization. The research also includes intersectional approaches that consider factors such as social, racial, and generational inequalities in illness and gaps in prophylactic public policies, especially among Black LGBTQIAPN+ youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The dossier consists of eleven articles, organized into three main axes: the first addresses issues related to subjectivities, mental health, artistic practices surrounding the theme, and care networks related to people living with HIV; the second analyzes aspects related to sociability, stigma, and resistance strategies; the third discusses public policies and sexual and reproductive rights, considering different contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The article that opens the dossier, \u201cThe drama of the human condition in one\u2019s own veins,\u201d by Claudia Cunha, Miguel \u00c1lvarez, and Luciane Stochero, addresses the mental health of young people living with HIV. The text reflects on emotional balance, silences and silencings, as well as the ethics related to care. The research highlights the distance between public policies focused on mental health and the daily reality of people living with HIV, emphasizing the need for integrated care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the article \u201cEveryone knows everyone,\u201d Francisco Oliveira Neto and Luziana Silva reflect on the decentralization of HIV\/AIDS in Primary Care in a municipality in the interior of Para\u00edba. The research highlights the challenges present in public policy processes that encompass diagnosis and follow-up actions, revealing stigmas and tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The essay \u201cThe po(ethics) of AIDS and its movements in Derek Jarman\u2019s Blue<\/em>,\u201d by Fl\u00e1vio Nantes, is dedicated to Jarman\u2019s final film, which represents an artwork of resistance to stigma. The film is autobiographical and produces reflections on the ethics of life when facing the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the article \u201cThe way we live now,\u201d Eliza Vianna performs an analysis of Susan Sontag’s short story, demonstrating that literature reveals experiences during the first decades of the epidemic. The article highlights the importance of LGBTQIAPN+ solidarity networks as forms of care and resistance in relation to HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ingrid Melo Silva and Lu\u00eds Felipe Rios, in the article \u201c\u2018Padr\u00e3ozinho with a poc soul\u2019: sexual desirability among men who have sex with men and vulnerability to HIV\/AIDS in the metropolitan region of Recife,\u201d conduct an ethnography on sexual desirability among men who have sex with men in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, considering intersectional aspects. The research reveals that hierarchies related to embodiment, race, and class influence choices in the area of sexuality, as well as vulnerabilities to HIV, in male homoerotic relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the article \u201cSwiping stigma,\u201d Ana Beatriz Reis and C\u00edntia Oliveira investigate dating apps that promote encounters based on the promise of diversity, when, in practice, they reproduce traditional normativities, hierarchies, and gender roles, although they enable some forms of resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Luciana Miranda and Ivia Maksud, in the article \u201cTensions and disputes over LGBTQIAPN+ blood donation: symbolic violence in health spaces,\u201d examine the processes of blood donation by LGBTQIAPN+ people. The research reveals that even after the cancellation of discriminatory regulations, prejudices and discrimination against sexual minorities still persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the article \u201cPrevention in dispute: PrEP, biopower, and inequalities in HIV policy in Brazil,\u201d Mayllon Lyggon Oliveira and K\u00e1tia Lerner analyze the contentions concerning public policies for HIV prevention. Based on Foucaultian inspiration, the authors analyze documents and reveal that such policies reinforce socio-economic, racial, gender, and territorial inequalities and advocate for preventive policies that articulate social justice and comprehensive health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u00eddia Arnaud, M\u00e1rcia Longhi, and Akim de Paula, in the article \u201cPolyphonies: talking about HIV\/AIDS in university extension,\u201d based on the project developed at the Federal University of Para\u00edba, Falando sobre Aids<\/em> (Talking about AIDS), reflect on university extension and the fight against stigma in relation to people living with HIV. The article highlights the importance of universities as spaces for the production of knowledge and the defense of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the article \u201cSex work, mental health, and STIs: the vital and labor precariousness of men producing adult content on digital platforms,\u201d Luiz Henrique Bra\u00fana Lopes de Souza addresses male sex work on digital platforms, revealing labor precariousness, the risks related to STIs, and the impacts on the mental health of these workers. The research emphasizes the urgency of public policies that promote health protection for workers in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Closing the dossier is the article \u201cSexual and reproductive health care among youth in a Rio de Janeiro favela: what is the place of AIDS?\u201d, by Mariana Barroso and Simone Monteiro, which analyzes sexual and reproductive health care for young residents of a Rio favela from the point of view of Primary Care professionals. The research reveals a lack of preventive actions for STIs, a concentration of services for women, and a low presence of young men seeking these services. The study emphasizes the importance of strengthening territorial actions aimed at expanding sexual and reproductive health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n