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@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : @theAIDSmemorial organizer aims to "see the face of AIDS" out of a time when AIDS couldn't be memorialized, out of forgetting >> into the now, into the actual geographies of our lives, a production of a refusal to move past forgetting
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : the NYC AIDS Memorial rife w contradictions a la the gentrification of mind (Schulman) to be placed across from what was St Vincent's into what is now an abstract, white, still, triangular canopy that invoke the history of AIDS...
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@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : conducting a close reading of the temporarlity and whiteness and emotional charge of https://t.co/8GL7fgx6yi that leads to intimacy/immediacy/urgency around AIDS yet again
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : everydayness to lovers, friends, family, acquaintance of who can remember those lost on @theaidsmemorial -- we see people living, youthful vs wasting victims to see how people *lived* with AIDS beyond just their pathologization/pain
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : centers the ordinary voices of those left behind (the survivors) vs those of the past (the dead) whose face may have never graced the internet and intimate description >> AIDS time is then felt in the present in engagement w those lost
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : the @theaidsmemorial is driven by those who come of age in a generation after >> affords younger/digital generations to integrate into "bygone" era of AIDS / LGBTQ community but Instagram time troubles normative AIDS time as part of the past
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise : argues for disruptive animacy ("quality of agency, awareness, mobility, and live-ness" Mel Chen 2012) in how Instagram space-time and spec @theaidsmemorial interferes with the temporal norm
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog @theaidsmemorial .@marika_louise :: these identities of those shown/displayed on @theaidsmemorial does not protect them from AIDS but protect them from disappearing from historical record altogether
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog .@marika_louise affective immediacy of engaging the sensations of https://t.co/sYLksOSFvV and work of hashtags like #whatisrememberedlives #aidsmemorial #theaidsmemorial #neverforget #endaids
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
@marika_louise @ukgeog .@marika_louise language of critical nostalgia or affective drag that people direct toward #ACTUP but rather their brand of activism & those who wish they had = way to express dissatisfaction of LGBTQ movement now & what #LGBTQ mvmt still wish we achieved
at @ukgeog #whatisrl
Ubered some pancakes and watching Netflix. #whatIsRL
You know you're using the @RuneScape forums too much when you see someone IRL that looks like a forum avatar 😂. #WhatIsRL
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