Swallow it whole : a zine about PrEP for women / a collaboration between Black Fly & Prepster.

[United Kingdom] : PrEPster and Black Fly Zine, [2019]

31 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 22 cm

Title from cover.

"We are a group of volunteer peer mobilisers, sexual health workers, writers and artists who came together to create and collate this content. Between us, our ages span from early 20s to late 30s. The majority of contributors are of African descent, and we are all women of colour. The aim was to create a black women-centred zine, which integrates pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) messages with our existing sexual health concerns and represents us in our own image. Lots of women don't know about PrEP, & have lots of different sexual health-related concerns which they need opportunities to talk about collectively. We're proud to have made one of few sexual health resources written by and tailored for black women, and to have been able to include contributions from PrEP users, sex worker advocates, trans rights activists, and a range of straight, bi & queer women. Through three workshops, we filmed, collaged, wrote, discussed, laughed, drew & painted our reflections around being women, navigating sexual health issues. We discussed poetry; and used Lucille Clifton's "Homage to my Hips", and Belinda Zhawi's "Black Women as God" to inform our own writing. We talked about our relationship to Caribbean carnival traditions, consent, and respectability."--Page 5.

"Swallow It Whole is a collaboration between PrEPster and Black Fly Zine, as part of MobPrESH (Mobilising for PrEP and Sexual Health), a pilot project which recruits, trains and supports volunteer PrEP peer community mobilisers."--Back cover.

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Introduction -- What is PrEP -- PrEP advocates -- Shame -- Our bodies are... -- Photos -- Is your sex... -- Desire -- Church, blackness and sex -- Decolonise ur Punani -- Deconstructions of beauty -- Homage to my body -- How did stigma begin? -- Blood.