You, Me, Us, & AIDS

NOT OVER: You, Me, Us, & AIDS, sponsored by Visual AIDS, and organized by artists and activists L.J. Roberts, Quito Ziegler, and Ted Kerr is a three week series of events, that explored the ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS in queer life. .

Part 1: INTERGENERATIONAL STORY TELLING HOUR

Saturday, January 21 from 1-3pm

Organized in part with Dan Fishback

Kellen Auditorium, New School

Main floor, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street

Queers who died of AIDS in the 80′s and 90′s were remembered with stories and performances by their surviving friends and admiring descendants. Current artists from our community also shared performances that reflected on this lost history and its impact on their lives now. Featured Eric Rhein, Sur Rodney Sur, Kate Huh, Jack Waters and Hana Malia. Audience was invited to welcome and introduce lost loved ones, ghosts and friends we lost.

Part 2: UNTITLED (film screening)

Saturday, January 28, from 1-3 pm

Kellen Auditorium, New School

Main floor, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street

UNTITLED is a non-linear 60 minute film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz, placing HIV / AIDS within the context of national and international moments. UNTITLED is a people’s history of the last 30 years with AIDS at its center. After the screening we debriefed the impact of AIDS on our collective history and together, discussed how we understand ongoing AIDS impacting our lives today and into the future.

Part 3: LIVING WITH HIV

Saturday, February 4, from 1-3 pm

Orientation (Bark) Room, New School, Ground Floor, 2 W. 13th st.

The epidemic of HIV and AIDS touches all parts of our lives from our intimate relationships with ourselves and others, to the way we access healthcare, participate in the economy and politics, have sex, consume culture, and generally move through the world. This town hall style meeting brought together a diverse group of people to share contemporary experiences of how HIV shapes our lives, the work we do, and the way we form identity and community. Featured Amy Sadao of Visual AIDS; Che Gossett of ACT-Up Philadelphia; Amanda Lugg, Director of Advocacy and Mobilization of the African Services Committee ; Laura Whitehorn, senior editor at POZ Magazine; and Michael Tikili of The Global Access Project of Health Gap.

NOT OVER: You, Me, Us, & AIDS is as part of QuORUM FORUM.