Eliciting critical hope in community-based HIV research with transgender women in Toronto, Canada: methodological insights.

ABSTRACT: Critical hope centres optimism and possibilities for change in the midst of struggles for social justice. It was a central tenet of early participatory pedagogy and HIV research. However, critical hope has been overlooked in contemporary HIV research that largely focuses on risk and biomedical interventions in ways that obscure collective agency and community strengths. We conducted a community-based study with transgender (trans) women of colour in Toronto, Canada to adapt an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention. Participants resisted a focus on HIV, instead calling researchers to centre journeys to self-love in contexts of social exclusion. In response, we piloted three arts-based, participatory methods generated with community collaborators: (i) affirmation cards sharing supportiv

SUBMITTER: Logie CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9226654 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature