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We Are Having This Conversation Now by Alexandra Juhasz

We Are Having This Conversation Now

The Times of AIDS Cultural Production

Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr

Duke University Press · Print & ebook · November 11, 2022

HIV & AIDSHow Media WorksGay Studies
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Who it’s for
Conversations trace AIDS cultural production across time, linking personal experience, community, and cultural objects.
Genres
HIV & AIDS, Gay Studies, How Media Works
Published
Duke University Press, November 11, 2022

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About this book

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.

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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.

AIDS Across Time

Conversations trace AIDS cultural production across time, linking personal experience, community, and cultural objects.

Come here for

  • Thirteen conversations tracing AIDS across multiple timelines
  • Overlooked cultural objects, personal stories, and community archives

Expect

  • Six foundational periodizations of AIDS culture
  • Discussion of organizing, videotape, empowerment movements, and memorialization

Where it sits

HIV & AIDS49%
How Media Works28%
Gay Studies24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • HIV & AIDS
  • Film History
  • LGBTQ+ Studies
Authors
Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
November 11, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
HIV & AIDS