“What Should Have Been, But Sadly Wasn’t“. Commoning HIV/Aids History in “Pose”

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21714751
AutoresKilian Schmidt (autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen32
Número2-2023
Páginas79-90
Fecha de publicación2023-11-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFEMINA POLITICA – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1433-6359 • E-ISSN: 2196-1646
EditorialVerlag Barbara Budrich GmbH (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3224/feminapolitica.v32i2.07
OpenAlexW4389143078
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas18

Among the many (hi-)stories referenced in the streaming series Pose is an infamous public protest by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) where they inflated a large condom-shaped balloon over a US-senator’s house in 1991 to advocate against the stigmatization of people with HIV/AIDS. The bodies in action in Pose’s iteration in contrast to the ‘original’ are mostly not white. In light of a historicization of trans*- and queerness with its compulsory colonial and racist structuring, this text proposes commoning as a frame to interpret Pose. After elaborating on House-Ballroom Culture’s (the scene Pose is set in) ’disidentificatory’ (Muñoz) practices as commoning and ACT UP’s video activism as commons especially in relation to different/other temporalities, the text offers a close-reading of the episode featuring the protest. The text suggests this kind of commoning as forms of trans* politics that intervene into binary and linear notions of time, community and subjectivity

Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporalities · Temporality · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy