Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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English

Arsenal Pulp Press
01 October 2021

Social services & welfare, criminology

Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story - essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?

By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781551528502
ISBN 10: 1551528509
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of two nonfiction titles and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her latest title, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, one of Oprah Magazine's Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. Her anthology Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book.

Reviews for Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

An exciting and important collection that reconvenes community and brings our hidden feelings and experiences of HIV again to light and to consciousness. --Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993