Interview with Bridget, 16-17, Caribbean, working class, Roman Catholic. Women, Risk and AIDS Project, London, 1989. Original version including field notes. (Ref: LJH11)

This interview is part of the Women, Risk and Aids Project (1989-90) archive which was created as part of the Reanimating Data Project (2018-20).Original transcript of interview with Bridget, who would like a career in law or insurance. She is more worried about her exams at the moment, but would like marriage and children when she is older. Her sex education has mainly come from her school and her older sister, which she has found useful as her parents have neglected to offer any - they have assumed that she would get is elsewhere. Although Bridget is a practising Catholic, she does not agree with certain aspects of her religion in relation to sexuality and contraception use. Bridget thinks the AIDS public health campaign adverts are useful and effective, which is interesting when compared to young people her age who are, or have been, in sexual relationships and haven't found them realistic at all.