Defend, Defend, Defend’

Women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness

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ID12691625
AuthorsKatharine E Low (0000-0002-3430-418X, King's College London GKT School of Medical Education, London, UK, corresponding author), Silvia Petretti (Positively UK, London, UK), Carmen Lowry (University of the Arts London), Chuck Blue Lowry (University of the Arts London), Maryam Shaharuddin (Independent researcher, London, UK)
Year2025
Volume51
Issue2
Pages276-285
Publication date2025-02-16
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Humanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265
PublisherBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/medhum-2024-013110
PMID39956622
OpenAlexW4407606762
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

This article shares the learning from our project, Positively Past, Positively Present (PPPP), which started in 2022 in partnership with Positively UK, formerly known as Positively Women, a UK HIV support and advocacy organisation. The PPPP project is an archival, oral herstory project which focuses on capturing the herstories and experiences of women and others who were part of Positively Women. Our aim was to consolidate these women's herstories and by sharing this knowledge prevent these extraordinary narratives from being invisibilised again. In this article we articulate how our use of embodied feminist performance-making in health activism can help to nurture the roots and interconnections of these knowledges, and in doing so, 'DEFEND' the loss of these stories

Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · General partnership · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Kindness · Literature · Narrative · Nature versus nurture · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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