Between certain death and a possible future : queer writing on growing up with the AIDS crisis / edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects.

Sexual minorities.

Gay people.

LGBTQ+ people.

Queer people.

Sexual minorities--Social conditions.

Gay people--Social conditions.

Gays--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

368 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2021]

Summary:

"An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives. Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer. Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story - essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future : An Introduction / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

What Survival Means / Keiko Lane

Surviving My Cousin / Bryan M. Holdman

Class of '88 / Rigoberto González

Hockey Night in Canada / Berend McKenzie

OPEN 24 HOURS / Nels P. Highberg

Relationship to Fear / EJ Colen

From the Inside : One Prisoner's Perspective / Timothy Jones

To Make a Whore of / Emily Stern

Andy Bell Made Me Gay / Dan Cullinane

Lucky / Eddie Walker

To Say Good-bye / Andrew R. Spieldenner

Rea / Hugh Ryan

Lie Back and Get Comfortable / Liz Rosenfeld

Leaving Atlanta / Stephen H. Moore

Old Testament / Alexander McClelland

The Conversations We Need to Save Each Other's Lives / Charles Ryan Long and Theodore (Ted) Kerr)

Scar Tissue / Adrian Ryan

Got AIDS Yet? / Aaron Nielsen

Please, We All Gonna Get It : Trans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure / Rory Elliott, with Alyssa Pariah and Gaysha Starr

Fearing El Sida / Manuel Betancourt

Looking for Gaëtan / Ryan Conrad

Jason & David / Dan Fishback

Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS / Sassafras Lowrey

Leftover Lovers / Edric Figueroa

Elders / Miranda Recht

Family Business / Kate Doyle Griffiths

Taking the Guilt and Shame out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker / Laura LeMoon

Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed / Ahmed Awadalla

Red Shadows / Lester Eugene Mayers, edited by Mariel Stein

The Long Ladder of Shame / C.L. Severson

PrEP Will Not Save Us : The Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide / Kody Muncaster

Disclosure / Robert Birch

Half-Breed Blues / Charles Conn

Status Symbol / Tony Correia

Undead Disco : Variations on a Theme / Patrick Milian

Across the Gap between Us / Liam October O'Brien.

Other Format:

Online version: Between certain death and a possible future.

ISBN:

9781551528502

1551528509

OCLC:

1243349552

Publisher Number:

99988675926