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 |
|---|---|
| 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
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Your HIV-positive sperm, my trans-dyke uterus: Anti/futurity and the politics of bareback sex between Guillaume Dustan and Beatriz Preciado, Elliot Evans, Sexualities, Vol 18, Issue 1-2, pp. 127 - 140, First Published April 15, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460715569138 Published in Sexualities on 01/02/2015 DOI: 10.1177/1363460715569138