"October 2018, WWHIVDD worked with Corrine Fitzpatrick, on behalf of Triple Canopy, to create a public conversation entitled, "What Would an HIV-Informed Cultural Worker Do?" The conversation was part of How We Do Illness, a day-long symposium that considered how personal narratives shape public perceptions of sickness, and how cultural workers and institutions contribute to the ongoing response to HIV/AIDS. The title was borrowed from the writer Lisa Diedrich, who reminds us that "illness and how we do illness is political." The symposium was part of Risk Pool, an issue of Triple Canopy that asks: how are sickness and wellness defined, and by whom? What are the effects of these definitions, these acts of naming and describing? Forty artists, administrators, critics, curators, and individuals living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS gathered to share their insights, frustrations, tactics, and experiences with making, seeing, and contemplating AIDS-related culture. What followed was the creation of non-exhaustive resource featuring a series of questions inspired by the event. The questions are meant to be provocations and are not put forward with the implication that there are correct answers. Participants whose contributions inspired the questions: Jordan Arseneault, Shirlene Cooper, Emily Colucci, Lisa Diedrich, Alex Fialho, Johnny Guaylupo, Emma Hedditch, Elizabeth Koke, Carolyn Lazard, Esther McGowan, Fernando Mariscal, Lara Mimosa Montes, Ricardo Montez, Julie Tolentino, and others who chose not to be named."-- From website. https://hivdoula.work/downloads
