Month: September 2025

Queer Ties, Weird Time: Thinking Biosociality and Queer Sociality Amid the 2022 Mpox Outbreak and Vaccination in the San Francisco Bay Area

Queer Ties, Weird Time: Thinking Biosociality and Queer Sociality Amid the 2022 Mpox Outbreak and Vaccination in the San Francisco Bay Area


The 2022 Mpox outbreak in the Global North disrupted the temporality of epidemics amid an uncertain recovery from COVID-19. Immediately associated with men who have sex with men, the outbreak interpellated the queer communities into action—for example, through participation in vaccination campaigns—and reactivated the collective memory of HIV/AIDS. This outbreak thus revealed an intricate form […]