AIDS and the Distribution of Crises

Jih-Fei Cheng is Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College.Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.Nishant Shahani is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Department of English at Washington State University.

“An exceptionally exciting book, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises is unlike any other collection on HIV/AIDS I have read. This volume makes critically important interventions into our past, present, and future imaginations of HIV/AIDS. It should be widely read and taught.” - Jennifer Brier, author of (Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis) “This volume reshapes our critical orientation by insisting on a conception of the AIDS pandemic not as a rarefied historical period or a particular epidemiological tragedy but rather as a space for opening up theoretical and conceptual inquires into the violent consequences caused by the ideological deployment and dissemination of ‘crisis.’ A capacious and compelling rendering of the AIDS pandemic, it offers a potent dwelling space for critical reflection and a powerful provocation into thinking otherwise about AIDS and the world at large.” - Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of (Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora) “AIDS and the Dis­tribution of Crises is a curated collection of perspectives and scholarly work on the past, present, and fu­ture of the global AIDS crises. . . . Any of us in the health care field who interact with patients, work in health policy, teach or work with future phy­sicians or learners, or are interested in global health should read this compilation. The writ­ing is illuminating, engaging and eye-opening.” - Shruti Varadarajan (Family Medicine)

• Foreword / Cindy Patton  viiPreface / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani  xviiAcknowledgments  xxviiIntroduction / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani  11. Dispatches on the Globalization of AIDS / A Dialogue between Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, and Eric A. Stanley, with an Introduction by Nishant Shahani  292. The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises / Bishnupriya Ghosh  603. AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crises of Knowledge Production / Jih-Fei Cheng  764. Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery  935. AIDS Histories Otherwise: The Case of Haitians in Montreal / Viviane Namaste  1316. "A Voice Demonic and Proud": Shifting the Geographies of Blame in Assotto Saint's "Sacred Life: Art and AIDS" / Darius Bost  1487. Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation / Cait McKinney  1628. Dispatches from the Pasts/Memories of AIDS / A Dialogue between Cecilia Aldarondo, Roger Hallas, Pablo Alvarez, Jim Hubbard, and Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyễn , with an Introduction by Jih-Fei Cheng  1839. Black Gay Men's Sexual Health and the Means of Pleasure in the Age of AIDS / Marlon M. Bailey  21710. HIV, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism: Understanding PTIS, Crisis Resolution, and the Art of Ceremony / Andrew J. Jolivette  23611. Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation / Juana MarÍa RodrÍguez  25712. Dispatches from the Futures of AIDS / A Dialogue between Emily Bass, Pato Hebert, Elton Naswood, Margaret Rhee, and Jessica Whitbread, with Images by Quito Ziegler and and Introduction by Alexandra Juhasz  288Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition / C. Riley Snorton  313Contributors  319Index  329