Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis

Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Book Title
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
Author
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
ISBN
9781551528502
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations--the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer. Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story--essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Mattilda Bernstein SycamorePublisher: Arsenal Pulp PressPublished: 10/05/2021ISBN: 9781551528502Pages: 368Weight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.80w x 1.00dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/05/2021
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations--the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story--essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 10/05/2021
ISBN: 9781551528502
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/05/2021
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations--the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story--essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 10/05/2021
ISBN: 9781551528502
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/05/2021