AIDS and the Politics of Grief

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In this four-part podcast series on Queer Activisms, historians, performers, educators and activists take a deep dive into existence and resistance in queer life – past and present.

In our second episode, Marybeth Hamilton is joined by Matt Cook and Debra Levine to discuss AIDS, queer activism, and the politics of loss and grief.

History Workshop Podcast · AIDS And The Politics Of Grief

Produced by Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton is an editor of History Workshop Journal and Coordinating Editor of History Workshop. She is the author of In Search of the Blues and When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment, and she has written and presented several features for BBC Radio. She is currently writing a cultural history of Valerie Solanas’s 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol.

Matt Cook

Professor Matt Cook is an editor of History Workshop Journal and Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a cultural historian specializing in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Debra Levine

Debra Levine is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard University. She has written extensively on AIDS activism and queer demonstrations of care during the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and her research traces the ethics of AIDS activism through historical and contemporary art, performance and protest practices. She was a member of ACT UP NY from 1988-1994, and her article reflecting on AIDS and COVID, “You Are Witness To A Crime”, was published earlier this year.

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