Textualizando experiências com o HIV : a resiliência em canais do YouTube criados por pessoas soropositivas

Abstract

This research consists in the exploration of four YouTube channels created by gay men living with HIV and reporting their experiences with the virus, from diagnosis to the everyday interactions. Based on the assumption that HIV and AIDS are made up of moral and stigmatized dimensions, which combine in a complex way with the dynamics of oppression of homophobia, the goal is to reflect on the ways that exposition of positive serology and biopsychosocial issues related to it gain visibility and are politicized in the virtual media environment. We adopted a perspective of valuing the historicity of the syndrome in order to qualify the experiences of living with the virus contemporaneously, characterized fundamentally by the chronicity assured by the antiretroviral therapy. In terms of chronicity, we have identified that these subjects adopt a posture and a resilient diction in the conformation of the audioverbovisuais texts that make up their channels. In this diction we perceive that there are three universes of questions that emerge in the composition of these textualities. The first one refers to the public exposure of serology as a way of responding, even politically, to the diagnosis and its chronicity, which shows a set of conflicts between strategic anonymity and forced concealment. The second is the exercise of moving away from AIDS stigma through textual strategies to the construction of a "living with HIV" that can be considered not only an affirmative experience but also a life-changing project. The third aspect is related to the ways in which these texts show affective dimensions of the experience with the virus and create a textual ambience in the channel in which experiences are exchanged between those who learn and teach about HIV, reinforcing the resilient logic in which they constitute and showing traces of solidarity. We note that from the audioverbovisuais aspects, such as the visual, sound, verbal and gestural elements of these youtubers, there is an exercise in positivation of seropositivity, which will occur in different ways in the experience of each subject.