We Are Having This Conversation Now

The Times of AIDS Cultural Production

AvAlexandra Juhasz,Theodore Kerr

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses. They establish multiple timelines of the epidemic, offering six foundational periodizations of AIDS culture, tracing how attention to the crisis has waxed and waned from the 1980s to the present. They begin the book with a 1990 educational video produced by a Black health collective, using it to consider organizing intersectionally, theories of videotape, empowerment movements, and memorialization. This video is one of many powerful yet overlooked objects that the pair focus on through conversation to understand HIV across time. Along the way, they share their own artwork, activism, and stories of the epidemic. Their conversations illuminate the vital role personal experience, community, cultural production, and connection play in the creation of AIDS-related knowledge, archives, and social change. Throughout, Juhasz and Kerr invite readers to reflect and find ways to engage in their own AIDS-related culture and conversation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478015840

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Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video, and coeditor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises and Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making, all also published by Duke University Press.Theodore Kerr is a writer, organizer, artist, and Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Arts at The New School as well as a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do?

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“[Juhasz’s and Kerr’s] conversational model-by definition friendly, curious, and inviting, with an interest in accessibility and transparency-distinguishes [We Are Having This Conversation Now] from traditional academic writing and media criticism. Here, history-teaching and -learning is rooted in an oral history framework: that we learn what happened to communities from the people who constitute them.”- Svetlana Kitto (Bomb) “We Are Having This Conversation Now carves a terrain of multimedia and citations. . . . [Juhasz and Kerr’s] push to talk about AIDS across temporalities is an effort to drag conversations around AIDS and AIDS cultural production into a public present and keep them there."- Mackenzie Lukenbill (The Baffler) "We Are Having This Conversation Now is suffused with an awareness that the dominant narratives of AIDS in the United States have traditionally centered the lives of gay white men." - Alex Valenti (The Body)

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations viiAcknowledgments ixThe Time of AIDS. Timeline 1 xiiiIntroduction. We Are Starting This Conversation, Again 1Section One. TriggerTrigger 1. What We See 19Trigger 2. Seeing Tape in Time 30Trigger 3. Being Triggered Together 49Trigger 4. Being Triggered in Times 59Trigger 5. Being Triggered by Absence 73Trigger 6. How to Have an AIDS Memorial in an Epidemic 83An AIDS Conversation Script to be Read Aloud. Timeline 2 95Section Two. Silence7. Silence + Object 1018. Silence + Art 1219. Silence + Video 13910. Silence + Undetectability 15911. Silence + Conversation 16912. Silence + Interaction 18313. Silence + Transformation 197Conclusion. We Are Beginning This Conversation, Again 217Sources and Influences. Timeline 3 227Notes 251Index 257