The HIV Storytelling Project: Narratives from South Texas

FAIN: AC-277786-21

University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio (San Antonio, TX 78229-3901)
Rachel Pearson (Project Director: July 2020 to present)

A collaborative project to collect and archive oral histories of the HIV epidemic, bringing together medical students, faculty, and members of the San Antonio community.

This project in digital humanities will be a collaboration between UT Health researchers and persons living with HIV and their advocates who have organized as the End Stigma End HIV Alliance (ESEHA). In its curricular component, researchers and ESEHA advocates will train health professions students in the history of HIV and HIV advocacy, the experience of living with HIV in South Texas, oral history, and digital storytelling production. Students will then work with research participants to develop compelling, participant-driven digital narratives from the South Texas HIV epidemic, and archive these narratives for use by the participants themselves as well as by medical educators and learners, community members and humanities researchers.

Associated Products

HIV Out Loud: Oral History and Empathic Listening for Future Physicians (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: HIV Out Loud: Oral History and Empathic Listening for Future Physicians
Author: Joshua Carrasco
Author: Rachel Pearson
Author: Yolanda Crous
Abstract: HIV Out Loud mobilizes the techniques of oral history to train medical students in skills of close listening, including making space for storytelling and taking a non-judgmental stance towards identities, behaviors and health conditions that are often stigmatized in healthcare settings. The project pairs medical student listeners with people living with HIV, to build an archive of stories of lives lived with HIV here in South Texas. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project is currently in its second year. Eventually, the project will be integrated into the curriculum at UT Health San Antonio’s Joe R and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, thus creating a sustainable method for the compilation of this oral history for years to come.
Date: 9/10/22
Primary URL: http://https://toha.web.baylor.edu/meetings-and-conferences/2022-conference
Primary URL Description: Conference website.

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