Blood Loss
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Blood Loss

A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art

  1. 313 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Blood Loss

A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art

About this book

In 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. At the same time, the activists were a queer chosen family of friends and lovers who took care of one another in sickness and in health. Sometimes they helped each other die. By the time Lane turned twenty-two, most had died of AIDS. In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Lane interrogates the social construction of power against and in queer communities of color and the recovery of sexual agency in the midst and aftermath of violence. Luminous and powerfully moving, Blood Loss explores survival after those we love have died.

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Information

Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781478030799
9781478026556
eBook ISBN
9781478059783

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. The Problem of the Story
  4. The Beginning
  5. An Archive of Impending Loss
  6. What Love Is
  7. After Leaving
  8. Plague Poetics and the Construction of Countermemory
  9. Then, After
  10. The Rememberers
  11. On Archives
  12. How Memory Works
  13. Epilogue. Endnotes Ongoing—An Incomplete List
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Credits

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