Love Your Asian Body : AIDS Activism in Los Angeles / Eric C. Wat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wat, Eric C., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team--History.

Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team.

AIDS activists--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.

AIDS activists.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles.

HIV infections.

Asian Americans--Diseases.

Asian Americans.

Pacific Islander Americans--Diseases.

Pacific Islander Americans.

Asian American gay people--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Asian American gay people.

Pacific Islander American gay people--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Pacific Islander American gay people.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

Interviews

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2021]

Summary:

""AIDS isn't just a disease; it's also a movement." So begins Eric Wat's moving community memoir of how the AIDS epidemic reshaped Asian American activisms in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s. Initially shrouded in misinformation and denialism, as the disease started taking the lives of Asian Americans in southern California, the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT) was formed in 1992 to advocate for people living with HIV and change social norms about sexuality in these communities. Based on interviews with more than 35 people intimately involved with AIDS prevention, care, and advocacy work, Love Your Asian Body explores the journeys these individuals took-connecting the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political. Wat narrates the transformation of APAIT from a scrappy group of grassroots activists to its emergence as one of the more formidable forces in the AIDS service landscape in 1990s Los Angeles. These activists brought a sex positive ethos to the work of community organizing and HIV prevention, centering pleasure and the sexual agency of LGBTQ Asian Americans. Detailing the broader systemic inequities AIDS illuminated alongside the coalitions activists brought into being, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital set of histories about the intertwined realities of race, sexuality, and gender in social movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Brand new world

Universal precautions

A rumor of plague

Fuck that

Exit strategies

School of fish

The young and the fearless

Filthy, dirty ads

Do your job. Piss somebody off.

Interpreters of maladies

We want a new drug

That shrinking window of reconciliation

What AIDS animated

The dating pool

Good grief

This darkness is not your life

Not to be dicked around

Downright respectable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295749341

0295749342

OCLC:

1246674351