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‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: (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.

Source: Medical Humanities

DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013110

Authors: Katharine E Low, Silvia Petretti, Chuck Blue Lowry, Maryam Shaharuddin

Institutions: King's College London, University of the Arts London

Language: English

Topic: Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4407606762