Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations—the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story—essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations—the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story—essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)

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Overview

Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations—the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story—essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781551528502
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Publication date: 10/05/2021
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of two nonfiction titles and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her latest book, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her anthology Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book.

Table of Contents

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: An Introduction (Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)
What Survival Means (Keiko Lane)
Surviving My Cousin (Bryan M. Holdman)
Class of ’88 (Rigoberto González)
Hockey Night in Canada (Berend McKenzie)
OPEN 24 HOURS (Nels P. Highberg)
Relationship to Fear (EJ Colen)
From the Inside: One Prisoner's Perspective (Timothy Jones)
To Make a Whore of (Emily Stern)
Andy Bell Made Me Gay (Dan Cullinane)
Lucky (Eddie Walker)
To Say Goodbye (Andrew R. Spieldenner)
Rea (Hugh Ryan)
Lie Back and Get Comfortable (Liz Rosenfeld)
Leaving Atlanta (Stephen H. Moore)
Old Testament (Alexander McClelland)
The Conversations We Need to Save Each Other's Lives (charles ryan long and Theodore (ted) Kerr)
Scar Tissue (Adrian Ryan)
Got AIDS Yet? (Aaron Nielsen)
Please, We All Gonna Get It: Trans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure (Rory Elliott)
Fearing “El Sida” (Manuel Betancourt)
Looking for Gaëtan (Ryan Conrad)
Jason & David (Dan Fishback)
Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS (Sassafras Lowrey)
Leftover Lovers (Edric Figueroa)
Elders (Miranda Recht)
Family Business (Kate Doyle Griffiths)
Taking the Guilt and Shame out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker (Laura LeMoon)
Those Who Left, and Those Who Stayed (Ahmed Awadalla)
Red Shadows (Lester Mayers)
The Long Ladder of Shame (C.L. Severson)
PrEP Will Not Save Us: The Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide (Kody Muncaster)
Disclosure (Robert Birch)
Half-Breed Blues (Charles Conn)
Status Symbol (Tony Correia)
Undead Disco: Variations on a Theme (Patrick Milian)
Across the Gap Between Us (Liam O’Brien)
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