Pandemics
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From ![]() Relationship to Fear |
This chapter details the author’s sex education at school, her being tested with a friend for HIV, and how fear of AIDS influenced her romantic life as a lesbian. | EJ Colen | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Scar Tissue |
In this chapter, the author discusses how he "grew up on a steady diet of AIDS fear," and the impact that has had on adult life. | Adrian Ryan | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! SmallpoxFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 66 | 2022 | $6.60 Add |
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From ![]() Status Symbol |
This chapter explores St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, where the author has regular blood work. He writes that it inspires a sense of community, and it is where he feels safest from stigma. | Tony Correia | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Surviving My Cousin |
In this essay, the author writes about his childhood relationship with his close cousin Dee, who was also gay, and Dee’s death of AIDS-related penumonia in 1998. He posits that Dee’s … | Bryan M. Holdman | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! SyphilisFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism, the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From ![]() Taking the Guilt and Shame Out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker |
In this chapter, Lemoon discusses the impact of her bipolar disorder on her life as a sex worker, and how the public dialogue about safe sex needs to expand beyond exhortations to use condoms. | Laura Lemoon | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Conversations We Need to Save Each Other’s Lives |
This chapter is a dialogue betweeen two activists who met at the International AIDS Conference in 2008. | Charles Ryan Long and Theodore (Ted) Kerr | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Long Ladder of Shame |
In this chapter, the author suggests that people like her – a trans Chicana sex worker who is chronically homeless – are terrorized by America’s obsession with pathogenic medicine. | C.L. Severson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed |
This chapter details the author’s experiences growing up as a gay man in Eqypt, and his work with refugees and migrants who have been affected by HIV. | Ahmed Awadalla | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() To Make a Whore Of |
In this chapter, the author describes her mother’s ailing health and eventual death from AIDS. | Emily Stern | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() To Say Good-Bye |
This essay details the author’s HIV diagnosis in the late 1990s, and how he feels discomfited by the Bay Area because of his history there. | Andrew R. Spieldenner | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! TuberculosisFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 61 | 2022 | $6.10 Add |
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From ![]() Undead DiscoVariations on a Theme |
In this chapter, the author discusses gay music, music claimed by gay people, and music that, sometimes retrospectively, narrates the gay experience. | Patrick Milian | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() What Survival Means |
In this chapter, the author reflects on their time in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and her friendship with someone who was dying of AIDS. | Keiko Lane | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |





