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My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.
“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”
In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.
“I was living in fast-forward, trying desperately to have a life before I died.” A veteran AIDS activist recalls living in the Bay Area during the 1990s, the queer people of color usually left out of the epidemic’s history, and how the decade taught him to value endings.
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