Alex Hsu-Chun Liu

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Alex Hsu-Chun Liu holds an MA in Science and Technology Studies from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and is pursuing an MD at Chang Gung University, Taiwan. He explores topics in medical anthropology and history with an emphasis on the transnational formation of temporalities, subjectivities, and knowledge in motion. His recent project traces a transpacific history of psychological anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, where questions of race, sexuality, and colonialism converge.

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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

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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 […]