In 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. At the same time, the activists were a queer chosen family of friends and lovers who took care of one another in sickness and in health. Sometimes they helped each other die. By the time Lane turned twenty-two, most had died of AIDS. In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Lane interrogates the social construction of power against and in queer communities of color and the recovery of sexual agency in the midst and aftermath of violence. Luminous and powerfully moving, Blood Loss explores survival after those we love have died.
- Cover
- Contents
- The Problem of the Story
- The Beginning
- An Archive of Impending Loss
- What Love Is
- After Leaving
- Plague Poetics and the Construction of Countermemory
- Then, After
- The Rememberers
- On Archives
- How Memory Works
- Epilogue. Endnotes Ongoing—An Incomplete List
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Credits
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