Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar

Just watched part 1 of the 3-part series "Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar" by Jonas Gardell about HIV/Aids amongst gay men in Stockholm in the 1980's and realize... I've never quite fully understood how close this is to me and how terribly unfair beyond belief it was - to FINALLY be able to be open and free and love and than just die amongst heaps of scorne and pain. And I understand now more than ever Diamanda Galas's work and why it was and still is so important. It gave and gives relief, an outlet, to mourn, to rage, to deal, to heal - to those who needed it the most... And it politicized these emotions. And on the small scale - it is keeping me from drowning in my own tears tonight. Tomorrow we will scream louder than ever against another part of this system that is so connected to all that robs us of being human beings.



The greedy business fingers of the willful blind rejoice and
WELCOME ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIANCY
WELCOME ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIANCY
We who fight and cry for a life gone every fifteen minutes say:
ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIANCY IS HOMICIDE
ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIANCY IS HOMICIDE
ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIANCY IS HOMICIDE

LOVE to Diamanda Galas and to every single one who died or is dying of that terrible disease that is HIV/AIDS. And FUCK YOU to all those corporations who have ever profitized off the death and suffering of these beautiful human beings, to all those in power who turned and continue to turn the blind eye, to all those religious figures who've ever said that anyone deserved it