[Anarchafeminists] Fwd: Living and Loving with STIs - CALL OUT

[Jamie Heckert]

Hey all,

Feel drawn to contributing? Mike is a lovely fellow and this looks like it
will be a great resource for people!

Love & anarchy,
Jamie
---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: mike upton <mikewupton at hotmail.com>
> Date: 3 February 2013 21:58
> Subject: Living and Loving with STIs - CALL OUT
> To: livingandloving at riseup.net
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing a zine about STIs and negotiating sex, consent and
relationships. I hope some of you will feel like contributing, and I'd be
really grateful if you could forward the call out (below and attached) to
anyone that you think might be interested.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
> Living and loving with STIs - Call out for contributions!
>
> Today there seems to be little opportunity to talk about sex, STIs* and
relationships outside of the often intimidating experience of the sexual
health clinic or the columns of glossy magazines. On the other hand, talk
of sex, relationships and STIs in our wider communities can seem difficult.
People living with STIs continue to experience stigma and discrimination:
from accessing (underfunded) health services to personal ads that insist
dates be ‘clean’ or ‘DDF’ (drug and disease free). Sexual health is also
increasingly a site of state policing: from the criminalisation of HIV and
herpes transmission in some countries to the accessibility of healthcare
services for migrants and asylum seekers.
>
> Living and Loving with STIs is a zine for people who have been affected
by, or are living with STIs, to share our personal experiences of
negotiating sex, consent and relationships as well as our wider experiences
of sexual health. But it also insists that STIs and sexual health is
everybody’s responsibility, whether you have experienced STIs or not and
whatever your known status. In that spirit, contributions are encouraged
from everyone on - but not limited to - the following topics:
>
> • Experiences of living with STIs, or being affected by them;
> • Experiences of sexual health clinics, testing/diagnosis, counselling
and treatment, positive/negative/comedy etc.;
> • Experiences of ‘coming out’/disclosing STIs;
> • STIs and dating;
> • Experiences of negotiating consent with sexual partners, disclosure or
non-disclosure of STIs, from casual sex, one-night stands and group sex to
longer term relationships, including STI-concordant and discordant
relationships;
> • STIs, open relationships/polyamory and monogamy;
> • Safe or safer sex? Risk reduction and experiences of negotiating and
doing different kinds of sex and intimacy;
> • Consenting ‘unsafe’ sex, e.g. barebacking, ‘gifting’;
> • STIs and experiences of abstinence;
> • STIs and sex work;
> • STI prevention work;
> • Intersections of STI-based discrimination/stigma and sexuality, race,
ethnicity, class, poverty, gender, ability, age, citizenship, immigration
status etc.;
> • Experiences of STIs and mental health, including shame, stigma and
effects on self-esteem;
> • STIs and communities, e.g. people of colour/black and minority ethnic
(BME), LGBT, queer, trans, feminist, Deaf, religious, school/college,
DIY/radical/intentional communities etc. and intersections thereof;
> • Experiences of healthcare workers, carers and loved ones/allies of
people living with STIs;
> • Criminalisation of STI transmission, e.g. the law and politics of
‘malicious’ transmission;
> • Feminist health and STIs;
> • STIs, sex toys, kink and BDSM;
> • STIs and conception/pregnancy;
> • Reflections on inspirational sexual health activists/writers;
> • Experiences of community-based sexual health campaigns/organising;
> • Your favourite and least favourite safe(r) sex materials: cartoons,
illustrations, adverts, slogans, health promotion materials etc.;
> • Treatment tips, both drug treatments, and alternative remedies (e.g.
lemon balm to relieve the symptoms of herpes).
>
> Contributions are invited in any format: personal accounts, essays,
fiction, artwork, poetry, subvertisng, drawings/illustrations, photography
etc. Anonymous contributions accepted.
>
> Please send these to livingandloving at riseup.net by August 1st 2013 (feel
free to get in contact if you have any queries). If you would like to
submit a piece in a language other than English, please get in touch as
limited funds are available for translation.
>
> __________
>
> *STI = sexually transmitted infection. Some STIs can be easily treated,
whilst others remain in the body, requiring long term treatment and
management of sexual health issues that can have enduring personal, social
and legal implications. The term STI generally covers infections such as
HIV, herpes, HPV/genital warts, hepatitis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis,
crabs, scabies, trich and others with equally beautiful-sounding names that
I may have missed out.
>
>
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