The Biggest Quake: Literary Response to SF AIDS Epidemic | Berkeley

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The Biggest Quake: New Thinking on the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic brings together six San Francisco artists with varied backgrounds in writing, performance art, music, public health, science, and AIDS activism.

This will be the kind of event where you have powerful conversations, meet new people, and get your own creative process instigated. Topics will include barebacking, pre-exposure (PrEP) HIV medications for HIV-negative people, crystal meth, being newly infected, helping people commit suicide in the 1980s, and getting arrested with ACT UP.

There will be no cliches about being HIV positive and thriving and no one will tell you that men who bareback have low self esteem. The work promises to be funny, touching, harrowing, historical and controversial. The artists spent hours having conversations as a group and individually, deepening their shared understanding of the AIDS epidemic. The variety of voices here creates a dialogue that goes across generational and experiential lines.

Curated by Kirk Read. Writing and performance by Mark Abramson, Justin Chin, Brontez Purnell, Carol Queen, Kirk Read, Julia Serano, Ed Wolf. 

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