Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

For decades, stories about women living with HIV/AIDS often centered stigma and tragedy. While the injuries of inequality continue to undermine structural care and self-care for many, models of thriving must also inform our conceptual landscape. Join us to hear different stories — about the policies and activism that support the transformation of individual women’s lives, and the ongoing transformation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic itself.

FEATURED AUTHOR
Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Ford School of Public Policy, and University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan. She is the author of the award-winning book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality.

PANELISTS
Dr. Vincent Hutchings, Hanes Walton Jr Collegiate Professor of Political Science and African Studies and University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan

Dr. Daphne Watkins, Professor of Social Work and Director of the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Center for Health Equity Research and Training, and University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan

Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr., Edgar G. Epps Collegiate and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He also holds an appointment at that institution's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS).

The second conversation in our series, Forgotten Bodies: Conversations on Research & Recognition; a series that elevates research that inspires or demands new paradigms of human dignity. The title is borrowed from poet Claudia Rankine’s declaration, “I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.” Each conversation provides models of relevant, necessary research that resists past patterns of exclusion and expands our sense of community. Authors will discuss recent projects, the process of writing as a political act and their vision for informing activism, policy and practice.