In 2009, Residente, the lead singer of a well-known Latinx music group and newly appointed international ambassador for the Latino Commission on AIDS, likened Latinxs in the US to HIV/AIDS. Taking this fertile equivalence as a conceptual point of departure, this article tracks the pitfalls and possibilities of aligning these two positions, touching on the performativity of disgust, the transmission of brown affect, and economies of racialization and deracination via the exchange of viral matter. Building upon the reparative labour of critical mestizaje, which came to the fore of Latinx studies in the 1980s, I reimagine the potentiality of a “viral mestizaje,” a form of relatedness that allows for networks of intimacy, multiplicity, and reproduction that extend beyond heternormative coupling. What is at stake in the positioning of Latinxs as “just like AIDS”? What are the possibilities and problems of analogy?

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“就像艾滋病一样”：拉丁裔身份、艾滋病毒/艾滋病以及类比的问题和可能性

2009 年，知名拉丁音乐团体的主唱、新任命的拉丁裔艾滋病委员会国际大使 Residente 将美国的拉丁裔比作 HIV/AIDS。以这种肥沃的对等作为概念出发点，本文追踪了将这两种立场结合起来的陷阱和可能性，触及了厌恶的表演性、棕色情感的传播，以及通过病毒物质交换实现的种族化和种族灭绝经济。在 1980 年代拉丁研究中脱颖而出的批判性混血儿的修复工作的基础上，我重新构想了“病毒混血儿”的潜力，这是一种关联性形式，允许超越网络的亲密、多样性和繁殖网络异模耦合。将拉丁裔定位为“就像艾滋病一样”有什么利害关系？类比的可能性和问题是什么？