Danspace Project curatorial fellow Jaime Shearn Coan shares his Platform 2016: Lost & Found Recommended Reading List below:

Poetry

Powell, D. A. REPAST: TEA, LUNCH, AND COCKTAILS. Graywolf Press, 2014.

Teare, Brian. Pleasure. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2010. Print.

Myles, Eileen. Not Me. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991.

Smith, Danez. [insert] Boy. New York: YesYes Books, 2014.

Cuadros, Gil. City of God. San Francisco: City Lights, 2001.

Gunn, Thom. Boss Cupid. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Dent, Tori. HIV, Mon Amour: Poems. Bronx: Sheep Meadow Press, 1999.

Prose

Delany, Samuel R. The Motion of Light on Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, (1988) 2004.

Fisher, Gary E. Gary in Your Pocket: A Gary Fisher Reader. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ed. Durham: Duke U Press, 1996.

Guibert, Hervé. Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976—1991. Nathanaël, Trans. New York: Nightboat, 2014.

Jarman, Derek. Smiling in Slow Motion: Diary 1991-1994. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. My 1980s and Other Essays. New York: FSG, 2013.

Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. Argyle: Spinsters, Ink, 1980.

Purnell, Brontez. Johnny Would Love Me If… (My Dick Were Bigger)? San Francisco: Rudos and Rubes, 2015.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “White Glasses,” “Divinity,” “Queer and Now” Tendencies. Durham: Duke U Press, 1993.

Prose + Poetry

Brother to Brother. Hemphill, Essex, ed. Washington D.C.: Redbone Press, 1991.

In the Life. A Black Gay Anthology. Joseph Beam, ed. Washington DC: Redbone Press, 1986.

Hemphill, Essex. Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1992.

Saint, Assotto. Spells of a Voodoo Doll: The Poems, Fiction, Essays and Plays of Assotto Saint. New York: Masquerade Books, 1996.

Scholarship + Criticism

Carr, Cynthia. On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. Middletown: Wesleyan U Press, 1993, 2008.

Cohen, Cathy J. “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ, Vol 3, 1997 (437-465).

Crimp, Douglas. Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics. Boston: MIT Press, 2002.

—. AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism. Douglas Crimp, Ed. Boston: October Books/MIT Press, 1987.

AIDS and Memory Issue. Drain Magazine. Edited by Ricky Varghese. August 2016.

Greenberg, Neil and Miguel Gutierrez. “Neil Greenberg and Miguel Gutierrez in Conversation, Parts 1 and 2.” Critical Correspondence, May 2006.

Eng, David L. and David Kazamjian. Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Snorton, C. Riley. Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Juhasz, Alexandra. AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Kramer, Larry. “1,112 and Counting,” New York Native, March 14-27, 1983.

Mumford, Kevin J. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Phelan, Peggy. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. London: Routledge, 1997.

Román, David. Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, & AIDS. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

—. Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts. Durham: Duke University Press. 2005.

Woubshet, Dagmawi. The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2015.