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Author Fink, Marty, author.

Title Forget burial : HIV kinship, disability, and queer/trans narratives of care / Marty Fink
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Introduction: Taking care -- Silence = undead : vampires, HIV kinship, and communities of care -- Caregiving collations and gender trash from hell : trans women's HIV archives -- Chosen families : rejection, desire, and archives of care -- The gift of dykes : naming desire in Rebecca Brown's narratives of care -- Queering customs : unburying care in My brother and ACE -- Conclusion: Forget burial
Summary "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 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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HIV-positive persons -- Care -- United States -- Historiography
Caregivers -- United States -- Archives
Caregivers -- United States -- Biography
HIV-positive persons -- Archives
HIV-positive persons -- Biography
Sexual minorities with disabilities -- United States -- Historiography
Sexual minority community -- United States -- Historiography
Kinship care -- United States -- Historiography
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
HIV-positive persons
Caregivers
LGBTQ+ communities
LGBTQ+ disabled people.
LGBTQ+ people
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Archives
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781978813786
1978813783