Monkeypox: The Making of an Outbreak
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Host Kai Wright speaks with Joseph Osmundson, microbiologist, activist, writer, professor at New York University, and author of Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022). They welcome listener questions about the state of the monkeypox outbreak, and the polarizing narrative surrounding the LGBT communities that the virus is disproportionately affecting.
A special thanks to Kali, Michael, Justin, Larry and Daniel – LGBT community leaders at the forefront of the monkeypox response in the Atlanta Metro Area – who participated in our listening session.
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| 0:00.0 | What life choices, if any, have you had to make due to the monkey pox outbreak? |
| 0:05.5 | I think that's a very lovely question. |
| 0:08.1 | It definitely impacts my readiness to be like really social. |
| 0:11.3 | My sex life have definitely changed. |
| 0:14.3 | It definitely started with ensuring that I have access to the vaccine. |
| 0:20.1 | That's the first line of defense. |
| 0:21.6 | I am a black gay man and a single one. |
| 0:24.7 | So, you know, I'm not in a partnership where I have certain agreements around |
| 0:29.5 | my potential exposure and my sexual behavior is definitely reducing my |
| 0:35.0 | going to places like leather bars or nightclubs or things like that. |
| 0:40.5 | I feel like I have to push back very little against the stigma associated with |
| 0:45.5 | being like a member of the sexual minority group, |
| 0:48.5 | especially the one that's centralized in this conversation. |
| 0:51.5 | This is the United States of anxiety. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Kai Wright and welcome to the show. |
| 1:01.5 | Those voices you just heard are from a listening session. |
| 1:04.5 | We held with a group of LGBT community leaders in the Metro Atlanta area |
| 1:09.5 | who work in public health. |
| 1:11.5 | Because as we started thinking about monkey pox this week, |
| 1:14.5 | we wanted to hear from this unique group of people, experts in public health, |
| 1:19.5 | but who come at that work is people inside the community most affected by monkey pox right now. |
| 1:25.5 | And quite honestly, as a queer man in New York City, |
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