Join in for a conversation between Peter Saxton and Cheryl Ware as they discuss how the landscape around HIV has shifted in Aotearoa, exploring the activism that emerged out of the epidemic.
Associate Professor Peter Saxton is a researcher and advocate in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland. Peter leads Aotearoa’s largest studies on gay men, sex and HIV, most recently the Sex and Prevention of Transmission Study (SPOTS). He is an author of over 500 research outputs, the recipient of Leadership (2016) and Innovation (2022) Awards from the Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Alliance, and is the inaugural Burnett Foundation Aotearoa Fellow. Peter’s first encounter with Derek Jarman’s work was the music video for the Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s A Sin” as a teenager.
Dr Cheryl Ware is a historian of sex, gender, and health in the late twentieth century Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. She is the author of HIV Survivors in Sydney: Memories of the Epidemic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Untold Intimacies: Histories of Sex Work in Aotearoa (Auckland University Press, forthcoming 2025). Cheryl is an experienced oral historian and has conducted over 120 in-depth interviews across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, many of which focused on individuals’ experiences of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.
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