Abstract

Using narrative-based user experience methods, this article investigates how youth living with HIV discuss their serostatus on the dating app Grindr. This study found that participants resisted Grindr’s interface, which encourages users to disclose their HIV status. Using intersectional queer theories of unruliness, this article argues that these resistant user experiences destabilize the underlying ideological aims of Grindr’s risk-reduction strategies, revealing ulterior practices of risk and safety stemming from the embodied realities of living with HIV.