AIDS and the Distribution of Crises

<i>AIDS and the Distribution of Crises</i> 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.<br><br>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