Epilogue: The Mourning After Available to Purchase

The epilogue ventures into the territory of personal narrative, relaying the author’s own disabled, femme-of-color dreams of infrastructure. It describes her experiences tending to her best friend during end-stage cancer care. The author reflects on how queer-of-color and disability life-writing functioned as a kind of safety net during this time, offering support and recognition in a health/care landscape that does not always view friendship as a legitimate connection. Looking to the essay “After Peter,” written by the gay Korean American author Alexander Chee, it considers some of the ways that queer people have acted as infrastructure for one another through sickness and death.