Overview

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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Author:   Alexandra Juhasz ,  Theodore Kerr
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781478015840

ISBN 10:   1478015845
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   11 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations  vii Acknowledgments  ix The Time of AIDS. Timeline 1  xiii Introduction. We Are Starting This Conversation, Again  1 Section One. Trigger Trigger 1. What We See  19 Trigger 2. Seeing Tape in Time   30 Trigger 3. Being Triggered Together  49 Trigger 4. Being Triggered in Times  59 Trigger 5. Being Triggered by Absence  73 Trigger 6. How to Have an AIDS Memorial in an Epidemic  83 An AIDS Conversation Script to be Read Aloud. Timeline 2  95 Section Two. Silence 7. Silence + Object  101 8. Silence + Art  121 9. Silence + Video  139 10. Silence + Undetectability  159 11. Silence + Conversation  169 12. Silence + Interaction  183 13. Silence + Transformation  197 Conclusion. We Are Beginning This Conversation, Again  217 Sources and Influences. Timeline 3  227 Notes  251 Index  257

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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 *

Author Information

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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