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Knowledge of AIDS Network Workshop 1: Archives of HIV/AIDS
University of Washington, Seattle WA, April 2024
As HIV/AIDS was first identified in the early 1980s, experts – including scientists, activists or members of communities impacted by AIDS – quickly began creating records and archives of the pandemic. Members and allies of impacted communities have been key participants in the documentation of this pandemic and the activation of this archive for scholarly, creative, and political work.
Without the archive, the ways that the creation, collection, maintenance, and use and reuse of records and data, knowledge of the history and the present of HIV/AIDS would be marginalized, suppressed, or forgotten altogether; however, histories of HIV/AIDS are often incomplete and archival silences can persist within these records.
Thinking about "The Archive" sets the stage for thinking critically about AIDS timelines and narratives, as well as broader questions of what our recorded histories do and do not contain.
How do we understand and engage with data, records, and information in the long pandemic?
'Grandma's Video' workshop
KOA Network members Theodore (ted) Kerr and Alexandra Juhasz led other workshop participants in engaging with 'Grandma's Video,' a tape produced by BEBASHI (Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues) for the purpose of triggering small-group conversations about HIV/AIDS.
A situated keyword and timeline activity asks:
What happens when words and objects move through time within communities which are changing?
KOA Network members Theodore (ted) Kerr and Alexandra Juhasz spoke at this workshop's keynote event, which included a polyphonic reading of a chapter of their book, We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production. Their discussion of the many forms of memorialization and "times of AIDS" was a moving tribute to Juanita M. Szczpanski, a Black disabled feminist AIDS video activist.
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