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Context and Storytelling

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Working with Excluded Populations in HIV

Part of the book series: Social Aspects of HIV ((SHIV,volume 8))

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This chapter draws on learning moments from research with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young persons in Jamaica to explore the importance of understanding how concerns for LGBT liberation and other priorities vary across contexts. A reflective conversation with Nicolette Richardson, the study coordinator, highlights the role of working with LGBT peer researchers, research timeline flexibility, and rapidly mobilizing findings as strategies to facilitate success in engaging LGBT youth in HIV research. The role of context—and its material, relational and symbolic dimensions—and storytelling are explored as ways to focus on research participation barriers in the larger risk environment and shift away from characterizing individuals as hard to reach.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The acronym LGBT here is used, rather than LGBTQ, as no participants in our study identified as queer.

  2. 2.

    https://www.nylon.com/articles/dexter-pottinger-jamaican-lgbtq-activist-murdered.

  3. 3.

    https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/man-uses-gay-panic-defense-in-murder-of-jamaican-fashion-designer/.

  4. 4.

    https://theconversation.com/i-track-murder-cases-that-use-the-gay-panic-defense-a-controversial-practice-banned-in-9-states-129973.

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Logie, C. (2021). Context and Storytelling. In: Working with Excluded Populations in HIV. Social Aspects of HIV, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77048-8_2

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