A5084723082- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Race, History, and American Society
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Sex work and related issues
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Marriage and Sexual Relationships
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Higher Education Research Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
2019-2024
University of California System
2024
Syracuse University
2018
University of California, Los Angeles
2015-2017
Background: Black young men who have sex with (BYMSM) experience higher human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence than their white and Latino counterparts.
Biomedical HIV prevention strategies, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure (PEP), represent new opportunities to reduce critically high infection rates among young black men who have sex with (YBMSM). We report results of 24 dyadic qualitative interviews (N=48), conducted in Los Angeles, CA, exploring how YBMSM their friends view PrEP PEP. Interviews were analyzed using a grounded theory approach. Participants had widely divergent levels knowledge about these methods....
This article uses ethnographic data and interviews with young Black gay cisgender men to illustrate how masculinity is interactionally created policed within communities. Here, I specifically highlight the ways constructed against Latino white men’s masculinity, discursively situating this a racial hierarchy celebrating hypermasculinity among men. further communities through what term sexual positioning discourse. Through use of positions relationships (e.g., “top,” “bottom,” “versatile”),...
Black sexual minority men (BSMM) experience the worst HIV treatment outcomes in United States. Drug use increases transmission risks and reduces health care engagement. Perceived provider stigma medical mistrust minimizes efforts. This study identified nursing preferences among drug-using BSMM. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted 30 BSMM who reported drug Baltimore City, MD, from December 2018 to March 2019. Analysis themes as client for practices gaps clinical services....
Sociological research has documented the various strategies employed by members of stigmatized populations to mitigate negative social effects these identities in everyday life. Furthermore, and political campaigns have called for efforts toward destigmatizing identities. However, we know much less about how groups come aim destigmatization individuals navigate multiple stigmas simultaneously or intersectional stigmas. Drawing on four years ethnographic data, I use case Black gay men...