“When We’re Coming From: What Would an HIV Doula Do? on Pandemic Time(s)
“When We’re Coming From” is a conversation across time and place among
a group of writers and artists who are members of the What Would an HIV Doula Do?
Collective. Seven of us have come together to have an asynchronous conversation about
how our decades-long work to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic shapes our experi-
ence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we share six individual assessments of pandemic
time to suggest ways that pandemics(s) shape our sense of time(s). What follows are our
meditations on how and when we see ourselves, and the transitions of HIV/AIDS and
COVID- 19: “AIDS out of time,” bent time, “time-is-money,” palimpsests, syndemic time,
and the long haul.
Published in Frontiers, 44: 1 (2023): 121-150
with J. Brier, S. Bhaman, A. Fiahlo, P. Hebert, T. Kerr, and O. Polk,
Topics: 2023-2024: Recent Work | AIDS | COVID-19 | Works from 2023 |