Cover Photo: This header image has a completely white background with a single ear in the center of the photo.
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Writing as a Person of the Ear

How I’ve learned to write about my own experiences documenting the AIDS/HIV crisis as an oral historian.

Shanti Project

Shanti

Shanti

ACT UP/San Francisco

“Confronting the Worst: Writing & Catastrophe,”

the Ward 5B/5A Shanti counselorsAIDS-specific Residence Program

San Francisco Examiner

Brendan McHugh is a queer multiply disabled San Francisco-based features writer and public historian. His work on AIDS/HIV history and disability has been featured in KQED, The Bold Italic, Contingent Magazine, Lady Science, JSTOR Daily News, Nursing Clio, and The Better Because Collective. He runs the online exhibit Shanti Projects: Intimate Histories of the AIDS Crisis which was covered by A&U: America’s AIDS Magazine. He has forthcoming work in Bay Nature Magazine. You can follow him on twitter @brendanexplain1