TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersectionality and Syndemics
T2 - A Reply to Sangaramoorthy and Benton
AU - Kline, Nolan
N1 - Funding Information:
The All Black Lives fund, totaling $100,000, was secured through a number of fundraising efforts and grant-writing initiatives from Contigo members. One of the grants that Contigo secured for the fund was from a pharmaceutical company that produces HIV medications. In their grant proposal, organization leaders argued to the pharmaceutical company that people with intersecting LGBTQ+ and Black identities faced unique forms of social marginalization that elevated their risk for HIV-related syndemics. To address this problem, the Contigo Fund made a case to the pharmaceutical company for funding a portion of the All Black Lives fund as a way to begin addressing the root social causes of poor health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This commentary responds to Sangaramoorthy and Benton's commentary about the possibilities and pitfalls of putting intersectionality and syndemics into conversation. Echoing their emphasis on the significant stakes of intersectionality in advancing health equity and social justice, I assert the need for health and social scientists to advance scholarship and activism that works to dismantle white supremacy. Doing so requires using every theoretical and methodological tool possible, including an intersectionality-informed syndemics. Using ongoing fieldwork from Central Florida as an example, I provide a brief ethnographic account of what an intersectionality-informed syndemics might look like on-the-ground, and how such an effort might advance long-term, intersectional social justice goals.
AB - This commentary responds to Sangaramoorthy and Benton's commentary about the possibilities and pitfalls of putting intersectionality and syndemics into conversation. Echoing their emphasis on the significant stakes of intersectionality in advancing health equity and social justice, I assert the need for health and social scientists to advance scholarship and activism that works to dismantle white supremacy. Doing so requires using every theoretical and methodological tool possible, including an intersectionality-informed syndemics. Using ongoing fieldwork from Central Florida as an example, I provide a brief ethnographic account of what an intersectionality-informed syndemics might look like on-the-ground, and how such an effort might advance long-term, intersectional social justice goals.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113786
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113786
M3 - Article
C2 - 33676763
AN - SCOPUS:85102045255
SN - 0277-9536
VL - 295
JO - Social Science and Medicine
JF - Social Science and Medicine
M1 - 113786
ER -