What We Say About AIDS
This World AIDS Day, Paul Attinello explores perspectives on how we think and talk about HIV/AIDS, and his own thinking over the last four decades. 1 December has been World AIDS Day since 1989.
HIV/AIDS since the 1980s Conference
Co-organisers Nikolaos Papadogiannis and Rachel Love report back on the August 2022 conference on transnational and comparative histories of HIV/AIDS. The ‘Reactions to HIV/AIDS since the 1980s: Transnational and comparative history perspectives’ conference, which
Jean Carlomusto Made Me Queer
Josefine Hetterich reports on the ‘Jean Carlomusto Made Me Queer: Video Activism, Queer Archives and AIDS Crisis Revisitation’ conference held in Frankfurt, Germany on 14-16 July 2022 Hosted by Goethe University, the ‘Jean Carlomusto
Reviving The Normal Heart: Theatre Review
Louisa Hann reviews the 2021 National Theatre revival of Larry Kramer’s HIV/AIDS play The Normal Heart (1985) Larry Kramer’s polemical play The Normal Heart is among the most frequently revived HIV/AIDS play within a
Silent Deaths: Women’s Erasure in U.S. AIDS Data
Hillary Ash explores the politics of gender and women in early AIDS epidemiology and data collection On September 7th, 1993, the American Broadcasting Company’s (ABC) World News Tonight aired a segment on the growing
Meet Our New Editors!
Meet this year’s Editor-in-Chief and our three new Associate Editors!
‘Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda’ reviewed by Dr Megan Wainwright
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda edited by Susan Reynold Whyte (Duke University Press, 2014). Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda is an account of the lives of the first generation of people to experience
‘AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice’ reviewed by Dr Emily Garside
‘AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice’ by Norman Fowler (Biteback Publishing, 2014) AIDS: Don’t Die of Prejudice by Norman Fowler draws heavily on the author’s personal experience both at the height of the AIDS crisis
‘Alternative Medicine’ reviewed by Jason Johnson Peretz
‘Alternative Medicine’ by Rafael Campo (Duke University Press, 2013) Rafael Campo’s sixth poetry anthology, Alternative Medicine, is not about alternative medicine in the sense of ‘traditional medicines’; rather the Alternative Medicine to which the title
‘Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS’ reviewed by Dr Chisomo Kalinga
‘Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS’ by Sanyu A. Mojola (University of California Press, 2014) In Love, Money and HIV: Becoming A Modern African Woman in the