Knowing another human being is like looking through a microscope. What is placed directly under the lens defines our field of view and thus our understanding.
Today, in the midst of more snow and cold, away from the lesbian community I knew in Eugene, Ore., long gone from the radical dyke community of San Francisco, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AIDS’
There is a balm in Gilead
Posted in butch, culture, gender, geography, queer, violence, tagged AIDS, Annie Dillard, drug abuse, ftm, grief, loss, suicide on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How many of us must die?
Posted in politics, queer, tagged AIDS on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been thinking a lot about AIDS lately, and the years I spent in San Francisco at the beginning of the epidemic. And I am having a hard time putting together those days of rage and grief and fear with the current state of the (now) pandemic.
The number of people in the U.S. infected [...]
28 years ago today
Posted in queer, relationships, violence, tagged AIDS, grief, suicide on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shock, denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance.
The stages of grief.
Like it or not, you are going to go through them. Ignore or avoid a step and it will come to visit you like the ghost of Christmas past. Haunting your waking and sleeping.
But what about when the reasons to grieve come in rapid succession? What of the [...]
