WIPSS; Walking Works of ART: HIV Narratives of Men who have Sex with Men
Event: WIPSS; Walking Works of ART: HIV Narratives of Men who have Sex with Men
Date: 10 December 2026
Time: 17:00 - 18:45
Venue: Faculty of Arts Library, 2nd Floor, Old Humanities Building, University of Malta
Work In Progress Seminar Series, Faculty of Arts University of Malta
Walking Works of ART: HIV Narratives of Men who have Sex with Men
Speaker: Dr Angele Deguara
Thursday 10 December
- 17:00 - 19:00
- Faculty of Arts Library, 2nd Floor, Old Humanities Building, University of Malta, Msida
Convened by Prof. Michael Briguglio, Dr Francois Zammit, Dr Dylan Cassar, Dr Niki Young
Bio Note
Dr Angele Deguara is a resident academic and subject co-ordinator of Sociology at the Junior College. She also lectures within the Department of Gender and Sexualities. Her research interests include homosexuality, gender and religion. She is a Moviment Graffitti and MGRM activist.
Summary
Considering that Malta has the highest rate of HIV diagnosis in the EU, the silence about HIV is deafening. With this work, the researcher wanted to break this silence, to give visibility to the invisible, the stigmatised, and to ensure that the stories of those living with HIV are heard, unlike the stories of those who contracted HIV and died of AIDS in the past, whose stories and voices were buried with their shame.
Deguara sociologically explores the experiences of nine gay men, the walking works of ART, who navigate HIV at a time when antiretroviral treatment (ART) transformed HIV from a deadly virus into a chronic disease, enabling them to lead a ‘normal’ life. Yet this sense of normality is clouded by the dark shadow of stigma that still pervades Maltese society, forty years after the AIDS pandemic.
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