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Love, Intimate Inquiry and the Beloved Community

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Working with Excluded Populations in HIV

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This chapter examines the importance of solidarity and social support for work with internally displaced women as part of an HIV prevention intervention project in post-earthquake Haiti. A reflective conversation with CarolAnn Daniel, the study’s co-principal investigator, revealed how community relationships were strongly valued and how, in turn, this produced a collective responsibility to provide care and support to one another. The concept of the beloved community considers community as an agent of change, draws attention to the importance of relationships between people working for change, and recognizes the need for openness and accountability. This aligns with the commitment of intimate inquiry, a research approach that bares the researchers’ positionality and research motivation. Inquiry using beloved community values offers a new perspective on how to engage socially excluded populations in research who may otherwise be labelled hard to reach.

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    To learn more about Jessica Whitbread’s master thesis “Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV” see: http://jessicawhitbread.com/project/tea-time/.

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    The Love Positive Women statement available here: http://jessicawhitbread.com/project/love-positive-women/.

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    Famn an Aksyon Pou Sante Yo (FASY) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxjJ5dAtEmA.

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Logie, C. (2021). Love, Intimate Inquiry and the Beloved Community. In: Working with Excluded Populations in HIV. Social Aspects of HIV, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77048-8_6

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