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Oct 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Viral Underclass has been named a finalist for the Best in Literature prize from the 7th Annual POZ Awards, which spotlight "the best representatives of HIV in media and culture."

Thank you for this recognition @pozmagazine—and for all you do 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
poz.com/article/poz-aw… The Viral Underclass: The H...
The finalists were chosen by @pozmagazine editors, but you can vote for the winner here poz.com/article/poz-aw…
Really appreciate the publications which have recognized TVU so far:

Kirkus, Booklist, Pub Weekly - starred reviews

Pub Weekly - 10 Best Politics Books of Fall

Apple & Amazon - Best Books of August

USA Today - 5 Must Read new books

#Lit16 16 best debuts 2022
Shondaland - 15 books by LGBTQ writers

POZ - Finalist, Best in Literature

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Oct 3
I write abt this in chapter 4 of my book: How laws (or administrative regulations) structure scientific understanding. In this case, the CDC regs say 5 days, so the law kicks in (employment law, truancy law) in schools, at odds w what many understand "science" to be.
What many consider "science" to be is the process of having a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis under various conditions, seeing if the results are replicable and so on.
But the law creates understandings of science (and creates a viral underclass along the way) that do, indeed, produce scientific knowledge (however incorrect) with real, tangible, and sometimes even lethal results.
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Oct 2
There's an outrage tweet floating around about the Art Institute desecrating the AIDS work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, but it doesn't make any sense -- the museum has a very accurate write up of the work on its website right now

artic.edu/artworks/15296…
The outrage tweet says the history of the work (left) has been destroyed. But the history of the work is described (right) on the Art Institute's website right now in almost the same way
What seems suspicious here is how does the tweet have an account of a close up of the former and (alleged) current, ahistorical art copy?
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Oct 2
I have been really enjoying Andor, too—the aesthetics, the acting, the dialogue, the class politics, the lack of Jedi, the restraint of SW imagery, the dramatization of the relationship between an East India Company-like corporation, empire & colonialism (settler & extractive).
It begins in a brothel and then the main character kills two corporate guards (private cops). There's a moment w a TIE Fighter in episode 4 that...I think is the first time we *very briefly* see any real SW imagery? Like Spielberg w the shark in Jaws, restraint is everything.
The score by Nicholas Brittell (Moonlight, The Underground Railroad, Succession) is glorious -- subtle at times, powerful, a needed and wonderful departure from John Williams, and SW in its own way. As magical as his score for The Underground Railroad (which almost no one saw).
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Oct 2
To my students, fellow writers, readers, audiences:

I ask us to mask (& I don’t eat inside w u) bc I care abt your health, my health, your families & neighbors. I ask us to mask bc if masking is worth protecting Hollywood stars & profits, it’s worth protecting your life—& mine.
As I wrote about before, Marxism is helpful for understanding labor and capitalism as a series of relationships structured by power. All wealth is generated by labor; the capitalist class siphons it off (ie steals it.)
In a pandemic, if the capitalist class senses that the cost of replacing “essential” workers is cheaper than the cost of mitigating disease transmission, it will just replace dead or disabled workers as needed.

In film production, this isn’t the case.
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Oct 2
1/2 Because I live for serendipity,

because NYC has a mature cinema culture,

because I was walking by and there was a 10 PM screening in IFC’s year long World of Wong Kar Wai festival,

because I’m so angry still abt that awful film tweet… Image
2/2 …I’m dipping in to see one of the greatest films of all time, which I’m thrilled to see on the big screen for the eighth across 20 years Image
3/2 What a beautiful crowd — dates, queers, single cinephiles. Moslty masked. A real cinephile Saturday crowd.
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Oct 1
The Democrats have failed to get Covid spending passed:

— In a stand-alone bill

— In a Ukraine bill

— In a continuing resolution spending bill

The Democrats have failed to get more Covid spending passed. And this failure will costs tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.
It's amazing how many Democrats think their party leaders have no political leverage when a stop-gap bill is being passed to keep the govt from shutting down and who think EVEN THEN their party has no ethical or political responsibility to lessen the #2 cause of death in the US
The Democrats are the party in power. What is the point of power if not protecting the people?

Even as an opposition party, there is a lo of leverage to be had in stop-gap spending bills to keep the lights on. And even here the Ds failed to get Covid $. DISGUSTING.
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