Join authors Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (ted) Kerr, along with special guests Rev. Michael J. Crumpler, Cait McKinney, and Amy Sadao, for the launch of their book We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production.

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To participate in the event on Zoom please register on the Eventbrite page.

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Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video, and coeditor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises and Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making, all also published by Duke University Press.

Theodore Kerr is a writer, organizer, artist, and Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Arts at The New School as well as a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do?

Rev. Michael J. Crumpler works as the LGBTQ and Multicultural Programs Director at the Unitarian Universalist Association and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Michael lives in Brooklyn, NY and is very active in social justice ministry at the historic Judson Memorial Church of New York City, where he served as President of the Board, 2016-2018. He is most passionate about intersectional ministry centered in blackness, queerness, HIV/AIDS, economic justice, and emotional well-being. Michael has been published in two groundbreaking works related to HIV and AIDS, OnCurating Issue 42: What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum and Spiritual Care in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter.

Cait McKinney is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and the author of Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke, 2020), winner of the Gertrude Robinson Best Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBTQ studies. They co-edited (with Allyson Mitchell) Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and other Lesbian Hauntings (UBC and AGYU, 2019), and a 2020 special issue of First Monday on HIV/AIDS and Digital Media (with Marika Cifor).

Amy Sadao is a nonprofit consultant and curator. She is a co-curator of FotoFest 2022’s “If I Had a Hammer” and recent Brooklyn Rail guest critic (July/August 2022). She was the Dietrich Director of ICA Philadelphia from 2012-2019, and directed Visual AIDS from 2002-2012. She serves on the board of the Leeway Foundation and lives in Philadelphia.