{"product_id":"forget-burial-hiv-kinship-disability-and-queer-trans-narratives-of-care-9781978813779","title":"Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence. In revisiting these histories alongside ongoing queer and trans movements, this book uncovers how early HIV care-giving narratives actually shape how we continue to understand our genders and our disabilities. The queer and trans care-giving kinships that formed in response to HIV continue to inspire how we have sex and build chosen families in the present. In unearthing HIV community newsletters, media, zines, porn, literature, and even vampires, \u003ci\u003eForget Burial\u003c\/i\u003e bridges early HIV care-giving activisms with contemporary disability movements. In refusing to bury the legacies of long-term survivors and of those we have lost, this book brings early HIV kinships together with ongoing movements for queer and trans body self-determination.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eForget Burial\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth reading. The most successful parts of this book take the reader inside the kitchens, bedrooms, prisons, art galleries, and hospital waiting rooms where people laughed, fought, loved, and sometimes died together. Fink makes a strong case that the early years of the HIV epidemic provide models for living joyously and communally despite the myriad ways capitalist institutions leave individuals to fend for ourselves. In the process of “unburying” the stories of historically marginalized people, Fink rightly and eloquently depicts disability as a generative force.\"— H-Net\u003cbr\u003e “What histories inter as past, \u003ci\u003eForget Burial\u003c\/i\u003e bears forth to account for our present. Extending caregiving as a method, the book examines how early HIV archival narrations of trans and disability activisms resurface in later novels, film\/video, and online networks. Whether displaying and eroticizing disabilities, or inventing safer sex, these negotiated HIV interdependencies transform state violence and biomedical stigma into kinships for ‘body self-determination’ that brandish mutual care and institutional access through our unfolding crises.”— Jih-Fei Cheng, co-editor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises\u003cbr\u003e \"Marty Fink’s \u003ci\u003eForget Burial\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital, much needed contribution to HIV\/AIDS scholarship. A wondrous cornucopia of theory, cultural artifacts – fiction, ‘zines, video, memoirs, painting, blogs and oral histories – analysis and archival uncovering, Fink’s work here is stunning when it makes connections to movements today. \u003ci\u003eForget Burial\u003c\/i\u003e is both an act of superb scholarship and of love.\"— Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States for Young People\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] creative and original study...this book offers historians both useful theoretical frameworks for thinking about HIV\/AIDS, disability, and the role of mutual care as well as an exciting collection of sources to learn from.\"— Social History of Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Taking Care                                                                                                                             \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Silence = Undead: Vampires, HIV Kinship, and Communities of Care  \u003cb\u003e             \u003c\/b\u003e                   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Caregiving Collations and Gender Trash from Hell: Trans Women’s HIV Archives             \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Chosen Families: Rejection, Desire, and Archives of Care\u003cb\u003e                                                               \u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Gift of Dykes: Naming Desire in Rebecca Brown’s Narratives of Care\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Queering Customs: Unburying Care in \u003ci\u003eMy Brother\u003c\/i\u003e and ACE                                          \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Forget Burial                                                                                                            \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements   \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited     \u003cbr\u003e About the Author         \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415240089943,"sku":"9781978813779","price":107.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978813779.jpg?v=1730526365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/forget-burial-hiv-kinship-disability-and-queer-trans-narratives-of-care-9781978813779","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}