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b"Aimee from Burning House Books joins us again in part two of our mini-series on David Wojnarowicz's rocket launcher of a memoir, Close to the Knives (1991). We read some key passages of the book aloud then talk about the AIDS crisis (in the US and UK vs. the 'other' parts of the world) and Covid, America's idea of itself as what Wojnarowicz called a 'ONE-TRIBE NATION', what the state's violent neglect of its own citizens can tell us about the rise of neoliberalism and the outsourcing of sickness and vulnerability, and finally what a revolutionary individuality might look like.\\n\\nCheck out Burning House Books at www.burninghousebooks.com\\n\\nListen to 3 Teens Kill 4's 'Tell Me Something Good': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNdEjsh5Gg\\n\\nWojnarowicz's painting discussed in the ep: Untitled (Hujar Dead), 1988-89: https://whitney.org/collection/works/48140\\n\\nEpisode cover art by David Wojnarowicz: Untitled (Buffalo), 1988-89: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/356226"