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If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth... more If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth you can acknowledge something you cannot see" (81). "yet stubbornly does a nauseating stench hang in the air as those to whom the future belongs perish" (149). "love still finds me here in the post-colonial hour, here among the politics of viruses and neo-liberal economic policies, […] here in Fanon's no-man's land we are beginning to learn how to make everything out of nothing again" (179). An essay that takes as its object of analysis an anthology of stories and poems from southern Africa titled Nobody Ever Said AIDS wouldn't be worth its salt without ever asking what it means to say AIDS, in 2004, in southern Africa. But I aspire to little more than highlighting the enormity and seeming impossibility of finding an answer to that question. As Kay Brown's narrator wonders: how can you acknowledge the invisible? Does AIDS have a face? Is it possible to imagine? This representational dilemma is present in the very ambiguous reference to "HIV/AIDS" common in everyday parlance. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a living organism impossible to confront in its singularity. It functions as a group, transmitting itself through human society, continually reproducing, evolving and adapting to its environment (Goudsmit 15). Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a diagnosis, a breaking point of HIV repro
If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth... more If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth you can acknowledge something you cannot see" (81). "yet stubbornly does a nauseating stench hang in the air as those to whom the future belongs perish" (149). "love still finds me here in the post-colonial hour, here among the politics of viruses and neo-liberal economic policies, […] here in Fanon's no-man's land we are beginning to learn how to make everything out of nothing again" (179). An essay that takes as its object of analysis an anthology of stories and poems from southern Africa titled Nobody Ever Said AIDS wouldn't be worth its salt without ever asking what it means to say AIDS, in 2004, in southern Africa. But I aspire to little more than highlighting the enormity and seeming impossibility of finding an answer to that question. As Kay Brown's narrator wonders: how can you acknowledge the invisible? Does AIDS have a face? Is it possible to imagine? This representational dilemma is present in the very ambiguous reference to "HIV/AIDS" common in everyday parlance. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a living organism impossible to confront in its singularity. It functions as a group, transmitting itself through human society, continually reproducing, evolving and adapting to its environment (Goudsmit 15). Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a diagnosis, a breaking point of HIV repro
If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth... more If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth you can acknowledge something you cannot see" (81). "yet stubbornly does a nauseating stench hang in the air as those to whom the future belongs perish" (149). "love still finds me here in the post-colonial hour, here among the politics of viruses and neo-liberal economic policies, […] here in Fanon's no-man's land we are beginning to learn how to make everything out of nothing again" (179). An essay that takes as its object of analysis an anthology of stories and poems from southern Africa titled Nobody Ever Said AIDS wouldn't be worth its salt without ever asking what it means to say AIDS, in 2004, in southern Africa. But I aspire to little more than highlighting the enormity and seeming impossibility of finding an answer to that question. As Kay Brown's narrator wonders: how can you acknowledge the invisible? Does AIDS have a face? Is it possible to imagine? This representational dilemma is present in the very ambiguous reference to "HIV/AIDS" common in everyday parlance. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a living organism impossible to confront in its singularity. It functions as a group, transmitting itself through human society, continually reproducing, evolving and adapting to its environment (Goudsmit 15). Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a diagnosis, a breaking point of HIV repro
If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth... more If you don't acknowledge something how can you fight it? But as I sit there I wonder how on earth you can acknowledge something you cannot see" (81). "yet stubbornly does a nauseating stench hang in the air as those to whom the future belongs perish" (149). "love still finds me here in the post-colonial hour, here among the politics of viruses and neo-liberal economic policies, […] here in Fanon's no-man's land we are beginning to learn how to make everything out of nothing again" (179). An essay that takes as its object of analysis an anthology of stories and poems from southern Africa titled Nobody Ever Said AIDS wouldn't be worth its salt without ever asking what it means to say AIDS, in 2004, in southern Africa. But I aspire to little more than highlighting the enormity and seeming impossibility of finding an answer to that question. As Kay Brown's narrator wonders: how can you acknowledge the invisible? Does AIDS have a face? Is it possible to imagine? This representational dilemma is present in the very ambiguous reference to "HIV/AIDS" common in everyday parlance. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a living organism impossible to confront in its singularity. It functions as a group, transmitting itself through human society, continually reproducing, evolving and adapting to its environment (Goudsmit 15). Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a diagnosis, a breaking point of HIV repro