Join us Thursday, December 11 at 7 pm for a night of conversation with acclaimed authors and activists to discuss AIDS activism, Asian-American identity, and our current political moment. We will be joined by Keiko Lane, who writes and teaches about the intersections of queer culture and kinship, oppression resistance, racial and gender justice, HIV criminalization, reproductive justice, queering sex therapy, and liberation psychology; Eric Wat, whose fiction and non-fiction writing reflects his experiences as a queer Asian immigrant in the U.S. and as an activist who still believes history is made by everyday people; and Jih-Fei Cheng, whose research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements.
How do the personal archives of Asian/American activists and scholars reflect AIDS social movements? How do family and queer kinship shape the practices of care and memory? This program queries how Asian/Americans are underrepresented as an HIV risk group yet stigmatized by COVID-19. It explores archives of loss as extensions of community care, solidarity building, and ongoing activism enacted by remembering ?
