AIDS Activism and Sarah Schulman’s Joyous Anger
Schulman’s Let the Record Show argues that AIDS continues to kill queer, drug-addicted, brown, black, undocumented, and uninsured people.
Travis Alexander
Travis Alexander is a postdoctoral fellow in medial humanities at Rice University. His writing focuses on relations among health, race, sexuality, and literature. It has appeared in American Literature; boundary 2; symploke; Literature, Interpretation, Theory; and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His book manuscript is titled 'A Glamorous Nightmare: HIV/AIDS and the Viral Power of Whiteness'.
Capitalism Chemistry or ‘Drug Use for Grown-ups’
Our capitalist language of minute gradations and improvised adjustments—of the plasticity of bodies and minds—places drugs in the service of economies of labor, production, and value.