Systemic Activism: Uneasy Coalitions During the Canadian AIDS Pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s
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Abstract
The AIDS pandemic disproportionately affects Canadian gay men, women, racialized communities, people who inject drugs, and people who have been or are incarcerated, leading these groups to engage in coalitional activism to advance HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. This paper examines how the effects of AIDS necessitated a response across these marginalized groups. Oral history interviews conducted in Toronto by the Canadian AIDS Activist History Project were examined to discuss the coalitions that were formed amongst marginalized groups in Toronto during the height of the Canadian AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Oral history interviews are incredibly valuable to marginalized communities; yet, once they are collected, they are often left unanalyzed. This paper analyzes existing oral history interviews to provide an overview of some of the tensions and successes between activists who belonged to different social groups. The paper ends with a discussion of intersectionality and the role of systemic activism in Canadian AIDS activist history.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".