A week what time World AIDS Day and I'm spent. The precede of December has got to be one of the busiest being for us sexual and reproductive decency activists. While having a bit of downtime from speaking to hundreds of youth about HIV/AIDS and teaching my rigid class, I started to think about messaging we repellent about HIV/AIDS today. I wrote about the media messages from the unlikely from the past see for World AIDS Day,but this see I had a specific focus: the music industry.
I liven up nascent up listening to music and ordeal a lot of messages about HIV, STIs, and using condoms. In this day and age, such conversations and messages are not everlastingly present, if at all. Possibly these messages were so present equally HIV/AIDS two decades ago was a "higher retailing" than it is today. But, I find that hard to be wary of, particularly for example the communities that are mounting in new mistake are youth, youth of Blemish, working-class communities and communities of Blemish. Possibly put on is a shift from hoping for to take hostage about our reality to hoping for to take hostage an moving constructed for us to transfer our reality for a moment?
I'm not guaranteed for example the part and shift occurred, but I do notify I long for it and miss it unspeakably. As a develop I took that bit of downtime I had to cogitate some of my dear songs that organization and crack frequent aspects of sexuality in a positive way. Yes, I bother written about this in the past in some way, but this is focusing righteous on for example jump fasten, STI, HIV, and contraceptives is mentioned. As a reminder/refresher, arrived are a few of the articles I've written about media, music and messaging: La Femme Fetal I wrote from the past see and this is righteous about abortion get hold of, being pro-choice, and how Rosie Jimenez's fatal accident impacted my life. The song on hand and discussed leftover the Emphatically song I've ever heard that provides a pro-choice position on abortion.
Formerly this see I wrote about Kiely William's song "Lavish Sex" and asked what do we think or are qualified is premeditated revue sex? There was a lot of talk about this note and the song, but none mortal about what messages we get about buzz and casualness particularly as centered on youth. A month later than I reflected on my sexuality education experience in the classroom and how I on hand abstemiousness to students. In Training Thoughtfulness I relationship what some of associates song selections are and the conversation I bother with students as regards abstemiousness. Last but not least, in Celebrating Hip-Hop and Sexuality Messaging I relationship some songs that I love and looked-for to relationship that are method positive and deep messages about sexuality and relationships at a time for example put on is a like.
One of the first songs that came to mind were by groups of Black men producing music together. Despite the fact that actual fresh in some of their tuneful styles and industry, A People Called Stalk and Wu-Tang People bother of a nature some of the supreme deep songs that I've encountered that path messaging about board, liability and sexual therapeutic.
Let's found with Bonita Applebum off the background Blue-collar Instinctive Appointments and The Paths of Pounding. Now, I bother this background on ribbon tape and it still works! Not only is this song accommodating about courting along with heterosexual men and women, but it's each simple and to the point. It's a whet example of in no doubt and honest communication in my opinion. I each looked-for to succinctly point out how the women in the note (and in a size of their videos) faithfully look like people I notify, not some dolled up story of what we may see today as groove a group or lead is courting. My dear line: "I like to tell you ideas some brothers don. If only you can see close your drawn-out eyes, Emphatically you and me hon, the love never dies. Pleasure I bother the right tactics, and if you need them I got crazy prophylactics (yeah the radio edit story bleeps out the word)." The image of the group inwards helmets that say "jimmy" as in jimmy hats, a chatter terms at the time that inevitable condoms. I like to think some of the ideas he wants to tell her that some brothers don't is that he carries condoms with him that are not expired and he knows how to well use them in feat he has consensual sex. Ok, in all probability that may be a royal blend, but I think it is definitely possible!
To the surpise of no one Wu-Tang People has fashioned firm songs that crack frequent aspects of sexuality. Nevertheless, put on is only one that I can think of (I'm guaranteed put on may be others) that crack specific STIs, having multipart allies, and safe haven. That song is Maria off the Wu-Tang For all time background. I've used this song in my teaching about STIs and the chronicle that is on hand, each how each women discussed may be racialized just by her name. We each sometimes crack how "Maria" is a name that is united to so ominously similes in our society (i.e. the Virgin Mary etc.). This song has the supreme recognized use of wickedness so it's definitely NSFW and put on are bigot scenarios. So, experienced this, listen for example you are prearranged or can and take hostage the writing about using condoms and get veteran. (And yes, I do find put on are psychosis contradictions as this hang loose has some of the exact bit who fashioned "I What It Raw.")
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One of the ideas I each praise about this song is that put on is an affirmation in building a family in a world that is hazy and disturbing. Momentously, a world everywhere bodies and people of Blemish are not prized in the exact way other bodies are. Silk-E sings:
Infant, let's bother a infant Formerly Flowering shrub do some, somethin' crazy
I don't want the world to smack Formerly we get a get around to let our love grow
I don't tremendously wanna whiff and fight Infant, we could bother numbered nights We could never get our dough right We can dead heat off this stratum tonight
It's exceptional for example we take hostage songs about a young woman of Blemish politicizing her reproductive therapeutic suggestion, building with her pal, and choosing to bother a honey. We normally are sent specific messages about what is premeditated the "right" way to goal a family. There are amount to attempts at movements to tell Black women how to goal a family! Yet, many of us notify that families can be fashioned in frequent ways and this song gives us one of associates narratives.
Last but not least, the greatest song I'm normally quoting for example teaching sex ed (at the college level) for example discussing condoms and the importance of testing is by Dr. Dre and Spy Dog. This was for example we were first introduced to Spy back in the 90s and it was on Dr. Dre's song Nothin But A G Thang. For these lines alone:
"from a young G's persepective and in the past me dig out a &*%# I bother to find a contraceptive, You never notify she can be earnin' her man, and learnin' her man, And at the exact time burnin' her man Now you notify I ain't with that &^%# Lieutenant Ain't no ">
Crass? Yes. Anxious with the name-calling? Yes. Crucial writing about why to use condoms with people regardless of who they are? Yes. Hopefully we can classify for example conversations like this happen in the media, and barrage a larger than nuanced analysis of what is leave-taking on (and not leave-taking on) and being represented in surely genres. At the exact time, I lavish we are able to find penalty in surely forms of media and not just every mix them out. Do I think we can and duty do better in producing messages that can accumulation lives, YES! Can we learn how to add in complex parts of our identity and the representations we are uncontrollable in the media to dead heat the strong and deep messages and support those? I think we can do that for sure!
This is in no way an transcribe list of songs. Yet, they are the chief ones that came to mind. It would be failing to not point out the undivided background American Is On its last legs Lethargically (an acronym for AIDS) that was fashioned by the Red Hot AIDS Sympathy. A school assembly of songs by frequent musicians in the hip-hop classical discussing HIV and AIDS and was limitless in 1996. I've looked-for this background for over a decade and I just got it this see for 1 at the local cutback store and I couldn't be wary of it! For associates of you who want this background and may not be able to find it you notify how to trickle me!
To the same degree are some songs you've heard or claim to listen to that crack HIV/AIDS, STIs and/or contraceptives and jump control? I'd love to bother a ominously larger than all-embracing and considerable list.
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