Title Love your Asian body : AIDS activism in Los Angeles / Eric C. Wat

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations Contents Brand new world -- Universal precautions -- A rumor of plague -- Fuck that -- Exit strategies -- School of fish -- The young and the fearless -- Filthy, dirty ads -- Do your job. Piss somebody off. -- Interpreters of maladies -- We want a new drug -- That shrinking window of reconciliation -- What AIDS animated -- The dating pool -- Good grief -- This darkness is not your life -- Not to be dicked around -- Downright respectable Summary ""AIDS isn't just a disease; it's also a movement." So begins Eric Wat's moving community memoir of how the AIDS epidemic reshaped Asian American activisms in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s. Initially shrouded in misinformation and denialism, as the disease started taking the lives of Asian Americans in southern California, the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT) was formed in 1992 to advocate for people living with HIV and change social norms about sexuality in these communities. Based on interviews with more than 35 people intimately involved with AIDS prevention, care, and advocacy work, Love Your Asian Body explores the journeys these individuals took-connecting the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political. Wat narrates the transformation of APAIT from a scrappy group of grassroots activists to its emergence as one of the more formidable forces in the AIDS service landscape in 1990s Los Angeles. These activists brought a sex positive ethos to the work of community organizing and HIV prevention, centering pleasure and the sexual agency of LGBTQ Asian Americans. Detailing the broader systemic inequities AIDS illuminated alongside the coalitions activists brought into being, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital set of histories about the intertwined realities of race, sexuality, and gender in social movements"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2022) Subject Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team -- History AIDS activists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles HIV infections -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles Asian Americans -- Diseases Pacific Islander Americans -- Diseases Asian American gay people -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Pacific Islander American gay people -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions AIDS activists AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects Asian Americans -- Diseases HIV infections -- Social aspects California -- Los Angeles Genre/Form History Interviews Form Electronic book LC no. 2021003570 ISBN 9780295749341 0295749342 9780295749334 0295749334

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