About Us
We are two academics, queers, and friends working on issues related to sexual health, HIV, and risk communication. We come from the field of Rhetoric and Writing studies, but our work cuts across queer theory, public health, and technical communication. Feel free to reach out with questions or just to say hi!
McKinley Green
Dr. McKinley Green (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, where he studies queer rhetorics, technical communication, and sexual health risk communication around HIV/AIDS. His current research project investigates how young people living with HIV communicate about infectious disease risk. McKinley works from a premise that people living with HIV have developed extensive rhetorical expertise to communicate about health risk, and that this situated expertise offers a model for public health institutions contending with the HIV epidemic. His research has been published in Technical Communication Quarterly and Computers and Composition, and his work will appear in The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric and upcoming issues of Rhetoric Review and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.
Wilfredo Flores
Dr. Wilfredo Flores (he/him) is assistant professor of digital cultural rhetorics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He works from a disciplinary throughline between rhetorical studies of health and medicine, settler colonial studies, science and technology studies, and Black and Indigenous studies. He uses rhetorical theory to understand the how marginalized people use digital technologies to talk about their sexual health, focusing on biomedical and infrastructural development within colonial contexts and tracing these formations to the current day.