We are having this conversation now : the times of AIDS cultural production / Alexandra Juhasz + Theodore Kerr.

  • Juhasz, Alexandra
Date:
2022
  • Books

About this work

Description

"In 2014, veteran HIV/AIDS activists and media makers Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (Ted) Kerr noticed a resurgence of mainstream interest in representing white gay male experiences of "the AIDS crisis" of the 1980s and early 1990s. This plethora of representations followed a long silence around HIV/AIDS (which the authors call the Second Silence, the First Silence indicating the environment of fear, homophobia, and racism that characterized the pandemic's early days). In We Are Having This Conversation Now, Juhasz and Kerr center conversation as a crucial method for sharing intergenerational activist knowledge and honoring the robust media ecology that has always surrounded HIV/AIDS. Identifying what was missing from Crisis Revisitation films like Dallas Buyers Club and How to Survive a Plague-the foundation of collectivism, intersectionality and feminism that the AIDS movement was built on-Juhasz and Kerr seek to reintroduce these commitments as crucial frameworks for continued conversation about HIV/AIDS"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2022.

Physical description

xii, 261 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The times of AIDS: Timeline 1 -- Introduction: We are starting this conversation, again -- Trigger: What we see -- Trigger: Seeing tape in time -- Trigger: Being triggered together -- Trigger: Being triggered in times -- Trigger: Being triggered by absence -- Trigger: How to have an AIDS memorial in an epidemic -- A script for AIDS workers: Timeline 2 -- Silence + object -- Silence + art -- Silence + video -- Silence + undetectability -- Silence + conversation -- Silence + inter(action) -- Silence + transformation -- Conclusion: We are beginning this conversation, again -- Sources and influences: Timeline 3.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ.T.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781478018483
  • 1478018488