The following plan is a tentative look at what my 2nd semester will look like for my Master’s program. This will help to shape the future of Our Viral Lives as a project.

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Packet 1 Deadline – September 7

Major objectives

• Articulate social innovation as it relates to narrative and archives around HIV/AIDS
• Complete final version of social innovation and sustainability essay

Resources

• Saturdays, Aug. 22 and 29 spent at the Schomburg Archives, listening and viewing docs related to their StoryCorps Black LGBT Archive
• Revisit the Zanele Muholi exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
• Design, When Everybody Designs
• International Handbook on Social Innovation
• Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice
• It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics

Packet 3 Deadline – October 19

Major Objectives

• Host 1 event in NYC — ideally related to using photography as a documentary, narrative and archival tool in LGBTQ communities
• Research more cross-cultural perspectives on HIV/AIDS to prepare for my upcoming travels to Mexico City and South Africa
• Solidify contacts in all travel locations and find out more about archival materials and community organizations
• Continue connecting with HIV/AIDS within NYC in a variety of contexts, to further refine social innovation and articulate possible future archival strategies

Resources

• See Survival AIDS Medication Reminder exhibit at PPOW & Party Out of Bounds at La Mama Gallery
• Visit the Crack is Wack Playground in East Harlem
• Hosted event at Bureau of General Services – Queer Division
• The Night Is Young: Sexuality In Mexico In A Time of AIDS
• The AIDS Pandemic In Latin America
• Autoethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research
• Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

Packet 5 Deadline – November 30

Main Objectives

• Collect at least 7-10 written interviews (and find appropriate translation services when necessary)
• Create an extended hybrid essay that combines autoethnography, archival research and more formal scholarship that focuses on at least 1 location that I traveled to
• Create a tentative thesis statement to prepare in advance of G3 semester

Resources

• Direct conversations with LGBTQ individuals in this country, work within service organizations, and visits to archival facilities
• Mema’s House: Mexico City
• African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization
• South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come
• Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town
• Zanele Muholi: Faces and Places, 2006-2014
• Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign