This photo essay emanates from research conducted in 2017 that focused on the life histories of transgender sex workers in Cape Town who have had tuberculosis (TB). The aim was to capture the experiences of the disease from an anthropological perspective and to respond to a lack of scholarship on LGBT+ bodies in relation to TB. The research resulted in an ethnography that embraces the everyday alongside TB to showcase the complexity of the participants’ lives. In this photo essay, we — Pieter (researcher), Siv (photographer) and Flavia (research participant) — use photography to discuss the experience we had when Flavia talked about her experience with TB — discussions that ended up not being about TB at all. What Pieter and Siv had imagined would be a story of suffering became a story of negotiation and reclamation — one that is important for the social science research canon on the lived social experiences of TB, especially as it is portrayed through the lens of someone who identifies as a transgender sex worker in the South African context.

这篇照片文章来自2017年进行的研究，研究重点是开普敦患有结核病（TB）的跨性别性工作者的生活史。目的是从人类学角度捕捉该病的经验，并应对缺乏与结核病相关的LGBT +机体的奖学金。该研究得出的人种志与结核病息息相关，与日常生活息息相关，以展示参与者生活的复杂性。在这篇照片文章中，我们-Pieter（研究人员），Siv（摄影师）和Flavia（研究参与者）-使用摄影来讨论当Flavia谈论她对结核病的经历时所获得的经验-讨论最终根本不是关于结核病的。