Viral Cultures : Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS by Marika Cifor (2022,...

University of Minnesota Press

Viral CulturesActivist Archiving in the Age of AIDS\nAuthor(s): Marika Cifor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517909369, 978-1517909369\nSynopsis\nDelves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive\n\nServing as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, ViralCultures is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of those radical activities. Marika Cifor charts the efforts activists, archivists, and curators have made to document the work of AIDS activism in the United States and the infrastructure developed to maintain it, safeguarding the material for future generations to remember these social movements and to revitalize the epidemics past in order to remake the present and future of AIDS.\n\nDrawing on large institutional archives such as the New York Pu.