Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hollerado

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Good medicine: mapping bodies and methodologies (refer to slides*) How people use their bodies to tell stories. Workshops lead by trained facilitator, depending on subject matter you"re interested in exploring, participants go through exercises by drawing on maps. Hiv medication: interested to see why or why not they didn"t take meds: wanted something other than a quantitative/ numerical method, little attention to context. Focus on implications of people taking meds, learn more about marginalization (not just a bad patient who doesn"t take pills, but complex reasons that affect their decisions) Unfolds over course of 4 day workshop: build support first, 3rd day more specific questions relating to hiv. Symbols and colours that represent experiences and feelings: hung in public spaces, want maps to live on after workshop. Majority women from western canada, ages 30-60: diverse experiences leading to their marginalization (sex-trade work, race, drug use)