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The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in Paris and New York

The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in Paris and New York Hardback - 2017 - 1st Edition

by Anne-Christine d'Adesky

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Hardback. New. Offers a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-Christine d'Adesky remembers "the poxed generation" of AIDS - their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art.
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  • Title The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in Paris and New York
  • Author Anne-Christine d'Adesky
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • Date 2017-06-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780299311100
  • ISBN 9780299311100 / 0299311104
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: AIDS
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalists, AIDS activists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016049004
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

Anne-christine d'Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone.