HIV/AIDS Prevention and Racialization

navigating flows, parties, and bodies

Abstract

The book Sem Perreco: HIV Prevention in Fluxos, Parties, and Funk Bailes, by Allan de Lorena, offers a sensitive, poetic, and critical ethnography of HIV prevention practices among Black LGBTQIAPN+ youth in the outskirts of São Paulo. Drawing from his personal and professional trajectory, the author questions the limitations of institutional combined prevention strategies and invests in situated, affective epistemologies that emerge from parties and "fluxos" as spaces of care, invention, and resistance. Through concepts such as "corpodemia," "Black prevention," and "body-party," Allan challenges sanitary normativity and proposes a radical shift in how health, visibility, and public policy are conceived. The work presents a strong critique of the erasure of Black experiences in the history of AIDS, aligning with the denunciations of authors like Jurema Werneck, by showing how Brazilian health policies have historically excluded the Black population, while also recognizing the resistance and alternative forms of care that emerge from these bodies and territories.