this image gets passed around a lot on days like #WorldAIDSDay2019, and I wanted to do a brief thread about it - this is the jacket worn by david wojnarowicz (1954-1992), an artist and writer who blended rage and deep empathy to challenge the control and violence of the state 
the details of david’s life - an abusive childhood, sex work, assault, alienation, the deaths of friends and lovers - are never far from his work, and it is his willingness to cut to the heart of his experiences and find the ways in which they connected us to each other that
fuels the tenderness beyond his anger - in his memoir close to the knives, he writes, “I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running
amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”
he died of aids-related complications and his ashes were scattered on the white house lawn as part of the 1996 ashes action led by ACT UP, of which he was a member in life
he died of aids-related complications and his ashes were scattered on the white house lawn as part of the 1996 ashes action led by ACT UP, of which he was a member in life
can't tell if twitter is or isn't loading descriptions but I want to responsibly cite these so -
david wojnarowicz with snake, peter hujar (1981)
a photo from the series arthur rimbaud in new york (1978/79)
queer basher/icarus falling (1986)
untitled (one day this kid... ) (1990)
david wojnarowicz with snake, peter hujar (1981)
a photo from the series arthur rimbaud in new york (1978/79)
queer basher/icarus falling (1986)
untitled (one day this kid... ) (1990)
