Theodore Kerr, Schools of Public Engagement '13
We Are Having This Conversation Now discusses the history, present, and future of AIDS through 13 short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply involved in the response to HIV.
The authors present multiple timelines of the epidemic, offering six periodizations of AIDS culture and tracing the way attention to the crisis has waxed and waned from the 1980s to the present. The book begins with an exploration of a 1990 educational video produced by a Black health collective, using it to consider intersectional organizing, theories of videotape, empowerment movements, and memorialization. This video is one of many powerful yet overlooked phenomena that the pair explore through conversation to shed light on the development of AIDS culture across time. Along the way, they share their own artwork, activism, and stories of the epidemic. Their conversations illuminate the vital role personal experience, community, cultural production, and connection play in the creation of AIDS-related knowledge, archives, and social change. Throughout, Juhasz and Kerr invite readers to reflect and find ways to engage in their own AIDS-related culture and conversation.
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