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Love Your Asian Body
AIDS Activism in Los Angeles
Eric C. Wat
- 304 pages
- English
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Love Your Asian Body
AIDS Activism in Los Angeles
Eric C. Wat
About This Book
Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American Studies Defying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movement The AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex and fostered inclusivity, regardless of HIV status. A community memoir, Love Your Asian Body connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. In those early years of the epidemic, these activists became caregivers, social workers, nurses, researchers, and advocates for those living with HIV. And for many, the AIDS epidemic sparked the beginning of their continued work to build multiracial coalitions and confront broader systemic inequities. Detailing the intertwined realities of race and sexuality in AIDS activism, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital portrait of a movement founded on joy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Brand New World
- Chapter 2. Universal Precautions
- Chapter 3. A Rumor of Plague
- Chapter 4. Fuck That
- Chapter 5. Exit Strategies
- Chapter 6. School of Fish
- Chapter 7. The Young and the Fearless
- Chapter 8. Filthy, Dirty Ads
- Chapter 9. Do Your Job. Piss Somebody Off.
- Chapter 10. Interpreters of Maladies
- Chapter 11. We Want a New Drug
- Chapter 12. That Shrinking Window of Reconciliation
- Chapter 13. What AIDS Animated
- Chapter 14. The Dating Pool
- Chapter 15. Good Grief
- Chapter 16. This Darkness Is Not Your Life
- Chapter 17. Not to Be Dicked Around
- Chapter 18. Downright Respectable
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index