Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.28968/cftt.v10i2.40290

Publication Title

Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

Volume

10

Issue

1

Pages

1-17

Abstract

Taken collectively, Patton’s scholarship and activism has laid the foundation for insights in the health humanities, particularly AIDS studies, that consider the inextricable connections between epidemiology and ideology. Patton’s theorizations of stigma and discrimination patterns, her deconstruction of “truth” discourses subtending science, her critical re-evaluations of axioms associated with risk, safe sex, community, and knowledge production have been crucial interventions in the understanding of health and illness as cultural and discursive scripts. Among Patton’s most enduring contributions has been her theorization of how “African AIDS” was invented and circulated—that is, the notion of geographically bifurcated HIV pandemics split by the essential linkage between Africa and blackness generally with pathogenesis. Equally influential has been her elaboration of the insurgent queer research practices that fused with antiracist struggle to combat this split.

Rights

© 2024 Cindy Patton, Travis Alexander & Nishant Shahani.

Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

Original Publication Citation

Patton, C., Alexander, T., & Shahani, N. (2024). Autoimmunities after COVID: An interview with Cindy Patton. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 10(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v10i2.40290

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