Manlik, Kate (2022) Allies or At-Risk Subjects?: Sexual Minority Women and the “Problem” of HIV in Lesbians on the Loose. Feminist Media Studies, 22 (1). pp. 104-119.

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Abstract

Sexual minority women are largely invisible in Australian HIV discourses, where their sexual identities are erased under heterosexist exposure categories. The dominance of these risk categories means there is no way of knowing how many sexual minority women are living with HIV in Australia. In this article, I draw on Carol Bacchi’s “What is the Problem Represented to Be?” (WPR) methodological approach to explore how sexual minority women are (not) spoken to as particular kinds of subjects in 2014–2017 editions of Australia’s largest LGBTQ women’s magazine, Lesbians on the Loose. Through an analysis of both their explicit representation in the magazine and the silencing of their identities, practices, and desires, I suggest that sexual minority women emerge, first, as allies to sexual minority men and people living with HIV and, second, as “at-risk” of contracting HIV themselves.

Item ID:	85431
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1471-5902
Keywords:	Lesbian; queer; silence; HIV/AIDS; WPR
Copyright Information:	© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Funders:	Macquarie University
Date Deposited:	13 May 2025 01:59
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4405 Gender studies > 440509 Women's studies (incl. girls' studies) @ 50% 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441011 Sociology of health @ 50%
SEO Codes:	13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1399 Other culture and society > 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified @ 80% 20 HEALTH > 2099 Other health > 209999 Other health not elsewhere classified @ 20%
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