Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care Fink Marty
Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care Fink Marty Finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda LiteraryQueers and trans people in the 1980s and early '90s…
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Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care Fink Marty
Finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda LiteraryQueers and trans people in the 1980s and early '90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence.
In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term