Feeling
left out during Sex Education? For many sex education is an uncomfortable
topic; and as if talking about sex to a teenager is not awkward enough many
gays feel that most of the questions one has cannot be address in class. So
this leave a big ambiguity, confusion and lack of understating; this is a major
problem. My process was to come up with some language that would be a
"call to attention". I wanted to give an illustration that talked
about the urgency of HIV infections among Latinos in the US. The statistics
come from https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-hiv-and-aids-latino-community
and according the CDC Latino men account for 87% of new HIV infections among
Latinos in 2010; most of them identify as men who have sex with other men. The
estimated rate of new HIV infections was more than three times that of its
non-Latino white counterparts. One of the most important tool Latinos can arm
their self with to fight this statistic is knowledge, and that starts with an
honest conversation.
I think your image does a great job of showing a that HIV isn't a problem that affects everyone in the same way, especially in terms of access to information. I think there's an article on this issue called "Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and and Visibility in 1990s San Francisco" by Roque Ramirez (hopefully that info is correct). In that article, I think Ramirez actually briefly talks about some of the images and media that were both productive and counter-productive to resolving this issue. So, your topic and image are definitely useful for thinking about inclusion/exclusion of targets and participants of media/digital activism.
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