ACT UP 25: HIV/AIDS, Archival Queers, and Mnemonic World Making

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Raymie McKerrow for the opportunity to mark ACT UP 25 in the pages of this journal, and my heartfelt appreciation to this Forum's contributors for their insight, editorial advice, activism, and friendship. As ever, Scott Rose is my sine qua non. Long Live ACT UP!

Notes

1. Paula A. Treichler, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 329.

2. ACT UP/NY Homepage: http://www.actupny.org/.

3. See Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

4. See Jennifer Brier, Infectious Ideas: US Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009); Roger Hallas, Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009); Charles E. Morris III, ed. Remembering the AIDS Quilt (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2011); Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Companeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011); Cathy J. Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

5. The History Boys, dir. Nicholas Hytner, 2006.

6. Sarah Schulman, “The Dynamics of Death And Replacement: AIDS And Gentrification,” ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Harvard Art Museum, October 15, 2009.

7. ACT UP, leaflet, “Media Advisory: Hundreds of AIDS Activists Dump Human Ashes on White House in Shocking Political Funeral,” October 9, 1992.

8. Michael Schudson, “Lives, Laws, and Language: Commemorative vs. Non-Commemorative Forms of Effective Public Memory,” The Communication Review 2 (1997), 6.

9. Charles E. Morris III, “Archival Queer,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.1 (2006): 145–51; K. J. Rawson and Charles E. Morris III, “Queer Archives/Archival Queers,” in Re/Theorizing Writing Histories of Rhetoric, ed. Michelle Baliff (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2012).

10. David Román, “Visa Denied,” in Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations, ed. Joseph Boone et al. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), 351–52; Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003); Ramírez, Horacio N. Roque, “A Living Archive of Desire: Terisita la Campesina and the Embodiment of Queer Latino Community Histories,” Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions and the Writing of History, Ed. Antoinette Burton (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 119, 116; Alexandra Juhasz, “Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, and Queer Archive Activism,” GLQ 2 (2006): 319–28; E. Patrick Johnson, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008); José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: NYU Press, 2009), 16, 4.

11. ACT UP Oral History Project: http://www.actuporalhistory.org/about/index1.html.

12. See Debra Levine, “Demonstrations of Care: The ACT UP Oral Histories on Video,” GLQ 16 (2010): 441–44.

13. Erika Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).

14. Simon Watney, Imagine Hope: AIDS and Gay Identity (London: Routledge, 2000), 167.

15. Dana Luciano, “Nostalgia for An Age Yet to Come: Velvet Goldmine's Queer Archive,” in Queer Times, Queer Becomings, ed. E. L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011), 124.

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Charles E. Morris

Charles E. Morris III is Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Boston College