A Queer History of Blackouts
Update: 2025-06-23
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In the first episode of this three-part series on the circulation of small forms, media scholar Cait McKinney revisits AIDS activism in the 1990s. Focusing on the Day Without Art project, they demonstrate how queer activists adopted the aesthetics of blackouts as an online protest tactic to expose systemic failures during the HIV crisis. Through small-scale interventions such as web banners…
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