Promoting mutual aid and interdependence for queer ethnic minorities during Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19477271
AutoresChase Ledin (0000-0001-5024-0625, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Páginasmedhum-2025-013511
Fecha de publicación2026-05-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Humanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265
EditorialBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/medhum-2025-013511
PMID42144276
OpenAlexW7161479513
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas29

This article explores the representation of sexual health in black and brown communities in London during the early COVID-19 pandemic. I examine the ‘Sex & the Coronavirus’ (2020) health comic series and interviews with HIV activists to demonstrate how they shifted the focus of COVID-19 health promotion away from the hegemonic white middle class and towards black and brown experiences. I use textual and visual analysis to trace the construction of practical information about COVID-19 and STI prevention—including biomedical, public health and relationship advice—and demonstrate how the imagery and language of mutual aid and interdependence enact counterhegemonic strategies. I argue that these materials and activist experiences set out key principles for counterhegemonic health promotion practice at the intersection of sexual health and COVID-19 prevention. I suggest that these principles should be further trialled for inclusive health promotion theory and practice

Ethnic group · Health promotion · Hegemony · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Intersectionality · Public health · Queer · Representation (politics) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy