by Marty Fink
Rutgers University Press
11/13/2020, paperback
SKU: 9781978813762
Finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary
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 to take care of each other in the face of state violence. 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. 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 unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, Forget Burial bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination.
Reviews:
"Marty Fink's Forget Burial is a vital, much needed contribution to HIV/AIDS scholarship. A wondrous cornucopia of theory, cultural artifacts - fiction, 'zines, video, memoirs, painting, blogs and oral histories - analysis and archival uncovering, Fink's work here is stunning when it makes connections to movements today. Forget Burial is both an act of superb scholarship and of love."--Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States and A Queer History of the United States for Young People
About the Author:
Marty Fink is an assistant professor of professional communication at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.