Forget burial : hiv kinship, disability, and queer/trans narratives of care / Marty Fink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Marty, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV-positive persons--Care--United States--Historiography.

HIV-positive persons.

Sexual minority community--United States--Historiography.

Sexual minority community.

Sexual minorities with disabilities--United States--Historiography.

Sexual minorities with disabilities.

Kinship care--United States--Historiography.

Kinship care.

Caregivers--United States--Biography.

Caregivers.

HIV-positive persons--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: taking care

Chapter 1 Silence = Undead vampires, HIV kinship, and communities of care

Chapter 2 Caregiving Collations and “Gender Trash from Hell"

Chapter 3 Chosen Families: rejection, desire, and archives of care

Chapter 4 The Gift of Dykes: naming desire in Rebecca Brown’s narratives of care

Chapter 5 Queering Customs: unburying care in my brother and ACE

Conclusion- forget burial

Acknowledgments

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9788-1380-5

OCLC:

1225145417