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

Submitted by the Event Organizer

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 will 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
• 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 purpose of this project is to generate new stories and thinking about AIDS that is not mediated by public health messaging or non-profit politics.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.