Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PreP treatments are lifesaving drugs that can reduce the risk of HIV infection from sex by about 99%. Yet, in an era where a once-daily pill can prevent one of the most damaging diseases we know, decades old inequalities in our healthcare and social systems render these treatments less accessible for minoritized subjects, the very same demographic groups who are statistically at higher risk. On episode 6 I talk with my friend and colleague Dr. Nic Flores about his book project, tentatively titled, Becoming HIV-Negative: Queer of Color Community Organizing and Responses to HIV Prevention. We talk about his ethnographic fieldwork, connections to the COVID-19 pandemic, publishing a book, and more.
Nic Flores is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in public and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, ethnography, comparative ethnic and racial studies, and gender and sexuality studies with additional interests in queer of color critique, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies.
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