We Need Collective Healing, Not Commodified “Self-Care”
Movement Memos
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Lessons Learned From the Care Work and Battles Wounded by Activists During the HIV AIDS Crisis
In healing justice lineages, Kara, Erica, and others address the HIV AIDS crisis. They discuss some of the struggle that activists waged to keep people in heavily impacted communities alive. As someone who grew up during that era, I think a lot about the way AIDS was regarded when people were told or told themselves that the HIV virus only impacted gay people. So what we learned from that time is how do we not fall back into this divide and conquer way of thinking about disease?
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