Abstract
Contemporary queer theorist Beatriz Preciado’s hypothetical bareback encounter with her friend and former editor, the HIV-positive writer Guillaume Dustan, explores her own understanding of the origins of queer politics in the AIDS crisis. Dustan’s ‘insur-rectional’ writing, particularly his views on bareback sex, made him party to a bitter feud with anti-AIDS group Act Up Paris. I consider what is at stake in Preciado’s eventual refusal of such an encounter with Dustan before his death, her understanding of Dustan’s queer politics as a ‘path of death’, and finally the influence of these ideas on notions of futurity in Preciado’s own thought.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 127-140 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Sexualities |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2015 |
Keywords
- bareback sex
- Guillaume Dustan
- Beatriz Preciado
- queer theory/politics
- transgender theory/politics