Forget Burial
Book description
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 take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting…
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1 author picked Forget Burial as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Marty Fink’s book is one of the best examples of recent and groundbreaking scholarship on HIV/AIDS.
Fink examines HIV/AIDS histories through critical disability studies discourse to show in a compelling and very readable way how queer and trans people in the 1980s and early 1990s came together to take care of each other when faced with stark and far-reaching state violence.
This book has deep contemporary relevance showing how multifaceted HIV care-giving narratives continue to inform how individuals and our wider society makes sense of gender, disability, and kinship.
Such work is essential in this political moment where we are…
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