*Note* This scheduling program was not designed by folks who do a lot with APA Style and unfortunately it defaults to listing authors in alphabetical order. We cannot fix this for this online schedule, but the author orders are posted in the order submitted in the printed program available via pdf here.
Interactive presentation from my book's themes, linking personal healing with activism for world-changing. Anchored in Jewish ethical tradition, I'll share women's courageous (and hilarious) stories, including a fair-minded perspective on Israel-Palestine -- inviting us to face our fears, but not act on them. For anyone who cares about human liberation.
Introduction: Public health research has indicated extremely high HIV seroprevalence (13-63%) among low-income transfeminine (MTF) people of color of African, Latina, and Asian descent living in the U.S. Much of the high HIV seroprevalence has been attributed to participation in survival sex work and infection from primary male partners. Public health discourse has also often focused on health behavior change without understanding cultural contexts. In addition, negative mental health outcomes as comorbidities of HIV have also not been greatly examined. Methods: This paper combines two data sets. One set is based on an 18-month (2005-06) ethnographic study of HIV risk among MTF communities in NYC (N=50, 120 hours of participant observation). The other set is a five-year (2004-09) National Institutes of Health-funded longitudinal quantitative study examining MTF people in NYC (baseline N=600, N=275 followed for 3 years). Results and Discussion: Transfeminine people of color are much more likely to be androphilic and at high HIV risk than white transfeminine people. Depression is high among all transfeminine people, but for transfeminine people of color, depression is strongly correlated with gender-related abuse experienced as adolescents. Depression may be one of several effects resulting from trauma experienced during adolescence; subsequent adolescent and adult revictimization may manifest as “trauma-impacted androphilia” in primary non-commercial relationships. A greater understanding of adolescent gender-related abuse and trauma-impacted androphilia among transfeminine people of color may be essential for more efficacious HIV prevention, and this understanding contributes towards a holistic conceptual model of HIV risk.
LGBT public health research, HIV research, drug use research, social and behavioral sciences, intersectionality, resiliency, women of color, social justice, vectors of oppression
