Forget burial : HIV kinship, disability, and queer/trans narratives of care /

Forget burial : HIV kinship, disability, and queer/trans narratives of care /

"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 tran...

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Main Author: Fink, Marty (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
HIV-positive persons > Care > United States > Historiography.
Caregivers > United States > Archives.
Caregivers > United States > Biography.
HIV-positive persons > Archives.
HIV-positive persons > Biography.
Sexual minorities with disabilities > United States > Historiography.
Sexual minority community > United States > Historiography.
Kinship care > United States > Historiography.
Biographies
Archives
Biographies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Taking care
  • Silence = undead : vampires, HIV kinship, and communities of care
  • Caregiving collations and gender trash from hell : trans women's HIV archives
  • Chosen families : rejection, desire, and archives of care
  • The gift of dykes : naming desire in Rebecca Brown's narratives of care
  • Queering customs : unburying care in My brother and ACE
  • Conclusion: Forget burial.

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