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AIDS Scholar Interview with Elizabeth Koke and Ted Kerr, conducted jointly by Jennie Brier for the Miami AIDS Memorials Project scholar interview series. Koke, a writer, activist, and brand marketing director at Housing Works in New York, and Kerr, a writer, organizer, and adjunct faculty member at the New School, discuss their collaborative documentary theater project I, of Course, Was Livid. The play draws on transcripts from women's 1992 CDC testimony demanding a change to the AIDS case definition — testimony by ACT UP LA members including Nancy McNeil and Mary Lucy — and is augmented by contemporary monologs from HIV activists. The conversation explores AIDS memory and memorialization, the women's history of HIV, the work of What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and the ethics and possibilities of using archival materials to create living, performable history.

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