AIDS and the Distribution of Crises engages with the AIDS pandemic as a network of varied historical, overlapping, and ongoing crises born of global capitalism and colonial, racialized, gendered, and sexual violence. Drawing on their investments in activism, media, anticolonialism, feminism, and queer and trans of color critiques, the scholars, activists, and artists in this volume outline how the neoliberal logic of “crisis” structures how AIDS is aesthetically, institutionally, and politically reproduced and experienced. Among other topics, the authors examine the writing of the history of AIDS; settler colonial narratives and laws impacting risk in Indigenous communities; the early internet regulation of both content and online AIDS activism; the Black gendered and sexual politics of pleasure, desire, and (in)visibility; and how persistent attention to white men has shaped AIDS as intrinsic to multiple, unremarkable crises among people of color and in the Global South.
Contributors. Cecilia Aldarondo, Pablo Alvarez, Marlon M. Bailey, Emily Bass, Darius Bost, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Jih-Fei Cheng, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Roger Hallas, Pato Hebert, Jim Hubbard, Andrew J. Jolivette, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Alexandra Juhasz, Dredge Byung'chu Kang-Nguyễn, Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Cait McKinney, Viviane Namaste, Elton Naswood, Cindy Patton, Margaret Rhee, Juana María Rodríguez, Sarah Schulman, Nishant Shahani, C. Riley Snorton, Eric A. Stanley, Jessica Whitbread, Quito Ziegler
Foreword / Cindy Patton vii
Preface / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani xvii
Acknowledgments xxvii
Introduction / Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani 1
1. Dispatches on the Globalization of AIDS / A Dialogue between Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, and Eric A. Stanley, with an Introduction by Nishant Shahani 29
2. The Costs of Living: Reflections on Global Health Crises / Bishnupriya Ghosh 60
3. AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crises of Knowledge Production / Jih-Fei Cheng 76
4. Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 93
5. AIDS Histories Otherwise: The Case of Haitians in Montreal / Viviane Namaste 131
6. "A Voice Demonic and Proud": Shifting the Geographies of Blame in Assotto Saint's "Sacred Life: Art and AIDS" / Darius Bost 148
7. Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation / Cait McKinney 162
8. Dispatches from the Pasts/Memories of AIDS / A Dialogue between Cecilia Aldarondo, Roger Hallas, Pablo Alvarez, Jim Hubbard, and Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyễn , with an Introduction by Jih-Fei Cheng 183
9. Black Gay Men's Sexual Health and the Means of Pleasure in the Age of AIDS / Marlon M. Bailey 217
10. HIV, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism: Understanding PTIS, Crisis Resolution, and the Art of Ceremony / Andrew J. Jolivette 236
11. Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation / Juana María Rodríguez 257
12. Dispatches from the Futures of AIDS / A Dialogue between Emily Bass, Pato Hebert, Elton Naswood, Margaret Rhee, and Jessica Whitbread, with Images by Quito Ziegler and and Introduction by Alexandra Juhasz 288
Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition / C. Riley Snorton 313
Contributors 319
Index 329
Jih-Fei Cheng is Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College.
Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Nishant Shahani is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Department of English at Washington State University.
Alexandra Juhasz is distinguished professor of film at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York.
Ganaele Langlois is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University, Canada.
Nishant Shah is vice president of research and acting director of research development of the Graduate School at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands.
