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