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Gregg Bordowitz

    Gregg Bordowitz, en tant qu'artiste et militant, aborde principalement les thèmes de l'activisme autour du VIH/SIDA. Son travail examine les représentations médiatiques de l'épidémie, confrontant les réactions sociétales face à la maladie, à la peur et à la mortalité. L'approche de Bordowitz est souvent conflictuelle et sans compromis, privilégiant des représentations authentiques des expériences des personnes vivant avec le SIDA. Ses œuvres, mêlées d'expériences personnelles, appellent à une reconnaissance politique des fardeaux de la maladie et du désespoir.

    Some Styles of Masculinity
    • Some Styles of Masculinity

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Some Styles of Masculinity is an intimate, urgent, and rollicking account of thinking and enduring through upheaval and plague. Prompted by the surge of white nationalism in the United States, Gregg Bordowitz reflects on his experience of assimilation and marginalization as a Yinglish-speaking child of outer-borough Jews and a queer person who has been living with AIDS since his twenties. He tells his own story by considering three totems of masculinity that were formative to him as he came of age in New York City in the 1970s and '80s: the rock star, the rabbi, and the comedian. These figures taught Bordowitz how to balance reinvention and tradition, and how to be different even as difference is under assault

      Some Styles of Masculinity