A podcast from the intersection of art, AIDS, and activism. Season 1 highlights Strip AIDS 2020, a series of new comics addressing contemporary aspects of the ongoing HIV pandemic. Visual AIDS is a NYC-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
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ART+ Positive & Electric Blanket with Leslie-Lohman Museum
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Visual AIDS partnered with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art on the final public program for "Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s," curated by Ariel Goldberg.This event celebrated two pivotal AIDS-related projects: Electric Blanket, a public projection created by Nan Goldin, Allen Frame, and Frank Franca with Visual AIDS in the 1990s, and the work …
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Strip AIDS 2020 | Strutting to Stop Stigma
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Award winning ‘Diva living with AIDS’, Rae Lewis-Thornton speaks to Mel Rattue about her comic, “Strutting to Stop Stigma" and Catwalk4Power, a group of women living with HIV who work to empower each other by organizing workshops and fashion shows. They discuss their experiences as women living with HIV, their activism, and how they both learned to…
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Artist and HIV advocate Joey Terrill speaks with Carlo Quispe about comics as a tool for addressing fear and stigma in the gay community. They discuss what has changed—and what hasn’t—since the 1980s, and how comics can offer new forms of representation for queer Latinx communities. Read the comic at visualaids.org/comicsTranscript available at htt…
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HIV criminalization activist Robert Suttle speaks with Inés Ixierda and Clio Sady about their comic “Legalize Positivity.” Together, they discuss how HIV criminalization codifies stigma, the origins of the prison-industrial complex, and how prisons perpetuate harm. Read the comic at visualaids.org/comicsTranscript available at https://visualaids.or…
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What does it mean to be living well with HIV? Artists J. Amaro and A. Andrews share their thoughts on this question with Johnny Guaylupo, an HIV advocate working with Housing Works. Spoiler: it’s more than just a pill! Read the comic at visualaids.org/comicsTranscript available at https://visualaids.org/blog/podcast-ep1…
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