Queer Emergent

“Focusing on the impacts of shifting global HIV funding priorities on local communities in Peru, Justin Perez documents and analyzes the stories told by and among gay and transgender people as a response to transformations in global efforts to end AIDS. He importantly shows how storytelling operates as a form of refusal and resistance that challenged the underlying moral assumptions in Peru’s response to the epidemic. A terrific example of thick description and ethnographic accompaniment, Queer Emergent makes important contributions to anthropology, queer studies, and global health.” - Thurka Sangaramoorthy, author of Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America

“Queer Emergent offers important insights into the formulation of queer subjectivities in relation to global health projects as they have unfolded in the Peruvian Amazon. Justin Perez uses the retelling of scandalous stories as a window into understanding how LGBTQ Peruvians challenge the moral projects of global health interventions. This is a timely book given the global health push for the elusive goal of ending AIDS and the types of projects that have resulted from this goal.” - Carina Heckert, author of Birth in Times of Despair: Reproductive Violence on the US-Mexico Border