The Department of Geography invites you to:

Hidden Epidemics, Hidden People: HIV/AIDS, Black Queer Communities and Accounting for Missing Geographies.

170 Academic Center
*THIS IS IN THE ELLICOTT COMPLEX! OR there will be a hybrid version of this talk on Zoom (but please come in person if you can)!

This talk expands the disciplines of Geography and Black studies through a consideration of the ways Black sexual practice and culture forms a missing geography that is foundational to knowledge produced about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To do this, I theorize the hidden HIV/AIDS epidemic as a material and conceptual analytic that highlights limitations in HIV/AIDS interventions and conceals Black queer response to the epidemic. Dr. Mallory presents a case study on a Black queer sense of place in Atlanta, GA to illuminate the social spatial life of the hidden epidemic and the ways Black queer communities contribute to spaces.

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Dr. Aaron Mallory is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and program in African American Studies at Florida State University. Aaron’s research is concerned with Black spatial production, Black Queer Health, and Black feminist knowledge production. Their research focuses on the ways Black communities are written out of places, spaces, and landscapes. As such, Aaron attempts to bring Black hidden or missing spatial contributions into view.