upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Che will combine literary art and activist history in the form of a zine in order to bring to the foreground narratives of resistance regarding trans and gender non-conforming people’s experience with HIV/AIDS, prison, and criminalization—in direct contrast to a mainstream narrative that is often white and gender-normative. The zine will explore the politics of loss and mourning around the HIV/AIDS epidemic that trans people of color in general, and trans women specifically, have survived and the ways in which they have created community and formed networks of support for one another.