Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Act Up, Sexual Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: K. Shewan

Document Summary

Sex the revolution episodes 3&4: sexual revolution was about gains and losses. Act up: act up (aids coalition to unleash power, engaged in public performances to draw attention to and emphasize the deadly effect of social indifference to. Aids (christiansen and hansen 157: responding to sociocultural and medico political discourses that blamed gay men for aids crisis, proposed means of addressing the aids crisis were homophobic and extreme: tattooing and quarantine camps for infected individuals. I believe the aids epidemic has taught us that nobody will listen unless we scream (cunningham , 1992, p. 63) (cited in christiansen and hansen 158: three comedic strategies, campy theatrical performances. Ironic, playful uses of language: concealment/exaggeration of gay and hiv+ identities. People are privileged by the degree to which they approximate the cultural ideal : people with less-normative bodies are avoided, ignored, and marginalized.