Ill Erotics: Black Jamaican Women and Self-Making in Times of HIV/AIDS

The convergence of the fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak, and landmark struggles for reproductive justice has illuminated interconnected health inequities faced by Black women globally. The first book-length ethnographic study to focus on Black girls and women living with HIV in the Anglophone Caribbean, Ill Erotics shows how women’s everyday lives contrast with widely circulated 'End of AIDS' crisis narratives that prioritize individualism, self-help, and self-s...