... kinship breaks down: illness and death, migrant experience, and family secrets. Through a doubled formal and thematic emphasis on fragmentation, discontinuity, and affective ambivalence, these extraordinary works help us understand kinship otherwise, or queerly. Queer Kinship and Ambivalence Video...

... unprotected. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 HIV/AIDS Latina/o/x studies literature illness health References Allatson Paul . 2007 . “‘My Bones Shine in the Dark’: AIDS and the De-Scription of Chicano Queer in the Work of Gil Cuadros.” Aztlán 32 , no. 1 : 23 – 52...

... and of biomedical thinking, where power, bodies, illness, rela- tions, and identities are envisaged very differently. Most powerfully, his works upturn and rethink the distinctions shored up in the biomedical AIDS imaginary that “other” certain groups, persons, bodies, or identities in order...

... and poetics of AIDS risked representing the most materially devastating aspects of the illness and its various treatments, to make the physical symptoms of the disease politically and affectively productive for people with AIDS and their allies. As I discuss below, in stage dramas like Angels...

... of uncontrollable sexuality (in the INTRODUCTION 11 case of developmental disability), much like the stereotypical queer, who takes on an identification as predator as well. Coming-out stories and memoirs of disability or illness, including HIV/AIDS, resist...

..., the puckered skin that disappears under the neck of her T-shirt and reappears on her arm and wrist. Since I almost always look “normal” despite my disabling chronic illness, I sympathized with her struggle over how and when to come out about her disability identity. “My parents don’t understand why I would...

.... The link between the romantic friend and the female flagellator through the erotics of pain can be read when the novel is placed beside pornography. Pain, I wish to suggest, functions as sexual desire in Mary, replacing sexual romance with illness as the location of the erotic female...

... that are commonly associated with caring for others who are ill. At least, she does not share the kind of emotional feedback readers might expect from a caregiver, espe- cially one who is also the narrator. She does not outwardly cry or worry, nor does she celebrate improvements or resent or bemoan regressions...

... . Sontag Susan . 1977 . On Photography . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . ———. 1978 . Illness as Metaphor . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . ———. 1989 . AIDS and Its Metaphors . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . ———. 2003 . Regarding the Pain of Others . New York...

... Metaphors. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors . New York: Doubleday, 1989 . Sontag , Susan On Photography . New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1977 . Treichler , Paula A. “AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification.” October 43 (Winter...

... sum, mea vita, futurus, quodve tener digitus ferre recuset, onus. me gere, cum calidis perfundes imbribus artus, damnaque sub gemmam fer pereuntis aquae— sed, puto, te nuda mea membra libidine surgent, et peragam partes anulus ille viri. Inrita quid voveo? parvum proficiscere munus...

... This spirit of the age, as William Hazlitt might have translated it across the Eng- lish Channel, was consistently seen in terms of illness: then, as now, termed the GLQ 7.1-01 Rousseau/Warman 1/11/01 11:36 AM Page 9 RENÉ AND CUSTINE’S SEARCH...

... mother was absent and empty, she may have sought validation from her father, which led to its own kind of gender pathology: tomboyishness and bisexuality. In this clinical picture, transsexuality is not an individual illness but rather a familial pathology that plays out over many generations...

... and GAY STUDIES uted to a different sort of individual or societal “ill” — changed but did not imme- diately displace the earlier belief that “consumption was not only a sickness, but a moral failing, caused by defects of character.”22 So while tuberculosis, unlike con...

... the desire for a physical merger. Persse has been ill with a “mystic malaise,” and James claims, “I mean that I would almost be ill to add the deeper note to our harmony.” He goes on to note that there is “something admirable and absolute between us...

... professor of French at the University of Michigan. He is author of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures (2001) and of articles on AIDS, homosexuality, the Holocaust, the family, and other topics. His current book project, on the question of community, uses the Marais as its starting...

..., who is also known as So Sze Wong, takes care of her lover with a gentleman’s demeanor.27 Ah So’s relationship with fifty- eight- year- old Gam fits into the imagination of a stable and long- term partnership where illness and care is constructed to be normal...

... their theoretical power, perhaps even to negate their project. We also know that Foucault was quite literally obsessed by the theoretical and historical question of madness and of “mental illness.” Whatever links there might have been for Foucault between his...

...: “A difference between the end of AIDS and the end of many other plagues: for the first time in history, a large proportion of the survivors will not simply be those who escaped infection, or were immune to the virus, but those who contracted the illness, contemplated their own deaths, and still survived.”1...

... narrative of Caouette and his mother. It examines the experience of growing up queer in Texas in a family affected by poverty and mental illness and documents Caouette’s attempts to care for his mother now that he is an adult. The film is constructed using collage to produce a text characterized...