The precarious visibility politics of self‐stigmatization
The case of HIV/Aids tattoos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Brouwer (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 114-136 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939809366216 |
| OpenAlex | W2063511315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 8 |
One of the ethical issues that emerges in discussions about HIV and AIDS is disclosure of serostatus‐who should know if an individual is HIV‐antibody positive, when, and by what means? For seropositive individuals, day‐to‐day existence is characterized by strategies of concealment and reveal‐ment about their seropositivity. Some seropositive individuals have chosen to disclose their serostatus rather indiscriminately by non‐verbal, rather than verbal, means through the acquisition of an HIV/AIDS tattoo. These tattoos‐indelible marks inked upon the skin‐textualize the body by rendering the surface of the skin communicative about the interior (seropositive) status of the blood, tissues, and organs. Asymptomatic tattoo wearers render the invisible visible. This phenomenon is politically precarious, functioning critically to problematize assumptions about space and appearances of health while simultaneously raising the specter of repressive or violent surveillance
Asymptomatic · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Serostatus · Sociology · Visibility · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology · Immunology
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An Appetite for Activism
Rainbow infrastruggles
Universal HIV testing and treatment and HIV stigma reduction
Destabilizing Science From the Right
Speaking to Silence
Discussing Lesbian In/Visibility
Validity and the art of rhetorical criticism
Chinese Mediated Homonormativity
Laboring to Belong
The Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Staging and intertextualizing Franz Kafka’s “in the penal colony”
Performing/Rhetorical Studies
The Limitations of the Discourse of Norms
Auto-Grafting traumatic excess
The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies
PrEP Whores and HIV Prevention
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |