Narrative multiplicities and the politics of memory in The Borders of AIDS

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Jih-Fei Cheng, “AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crisis of Knowledge Production,” in AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, eds. Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), 85.2 Editor’s note to Julia S. Jordan-Zachery’s “Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk,” in AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, 95.3 The irony that I am evoking this frame to make a point is not lost on me.4 Karma Chávez The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021), 13.5 Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012), 25.6 See, for example, Theodore Kerr, “How to Live with a Virus,” POZ, March 23, 2020, https://www.poz.com/article/live-virus7 Chávez, Borders of AIDS, 5.8 Kevin Mumford, Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), 172.9 Andrew Pope, “Let Me Be Somebody: Fabian Bridges & Quarantine Proposals During the HIV & AIDS Crisis in America,” unpublished paper obtained through contact with the author, January 9, 2023.10 Chávez, Borders of AIDS, 7611 Riley C. Snorton, Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 124.12 Cathy Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 143.13 Steven W. Thrasher, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (New York: Celadon Books, 2022), 52.14 Cristina Mejia Visperas, Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (New York: New York University Press, 2022), 9–10.15 Visperas, Skin Theory, 10.