Event Description
In the late 1990s, HIV-positive mothers across North America began refusing antiretrovirals for themselves and their children. They argued that doctors and scientists did not know better than they did how to take care of their children’s health—that their innate knowledge as mothers mattered just as much as expert knowledge. This talk examines the reasons for their rebellion against state and medical authority, using it as a window into understanding the politics of the natural parenting movement from the perspective of a group of straight women who felt tainted by their association with a “gay disease.”
Event Speaker
Lindsay Zafir, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the City College of New York
Event Information
Open to Columbia University ID holders only. No registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Hosted by the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities at Columbia University.
