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The fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak, and landmark struggles for reproductive justice has illuminated interconnected health inequities faced by Black women globally. As the first book-length ethnographic study to focus on Black girls and women living with HIV in the Anglophone Caribbean, Ill Erotics shows how women’s everyday lives contrast with widely circulated "end of AIDS crisis" narratives that equate biomedical progres with the end of the epidemic and prioritize individual responsibility for HIV self-management. Jallicia Jolly chronicles how these women navigate the contradictory interventions of the state, biomedicine, humanitarianism, and HIV/AIDS organizations. She argues that the grassroots practice of care enables a Black feminist infrastructure that centers interdependence, sexual agency, and political mobilization while repurposing discourses of shame, isolation, and contagion as ill erotics.
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Prologue: When and Where I Enter: A Jamerican Autoethnography of Reproductive (In)Justice
Introduction: Writing Black Jamaican Women’s Lives in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
1. Jamaica, Jamaica: A History of Gendered, Racialized, and Classed Inequality
2. The Social and Political Worlds of Young Black Jamaican Women
3. "If Yuh Nuh Care, Nobody Will Care Fi Yuh": Care as a Mode of Survival
Interlude I: "Pum Pum Village" | How We Remember Black Women’s Afterlives
4. "Sex Nice but di AIDS Ting": The Politics of Women’s Sexuality, HIV, and Dancehall
Interlude II: "Pass di Worse" | How We Remember Black Women’s Afterlives
5. Black Motherhood as a Humanitarian Public: The Emotional and Political Life of Motherhood Among Women Living with HIV
Interlude III: Life After Death | How We Remember Black Women’s Afterlives
6. "Who Ah Bury Yuh?" The Politics of Mourning, Remembrance, and Black Women’s Afterlives
Conclusion: A Black Transnational Feminist Ethnography of HIV/AIDS
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Research Methods and Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index