Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Bernstein Sycamore Mattilda
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Bernstein Sycamore Mattilda Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out…
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Bernstein Sycamore Mattilda
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. 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.
This wide-ranging collection includes 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.