Over 20 writers and editors involved in this project have released an HIV/AIDS related book in the early COVID era (2020-2023), including organizers and writers Theodore (ted) Kerr and Alexandra Juhasz.

Theodore (ted) Kerr, is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, organizer, and educator. He is an adjunct professor at The New School, and a founding member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective. He was the guest editor of What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum, for On Curating. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, The Advocate, The Body, Poz, and elsewhere including the academic publications WSQ, QED, and Drain. In 2017 he was an interviewer for Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. With Alexandra Juhasz, he is the co-author of We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Culture Production (Duke, forthcoming), and is the guest curator of A People’s History of Pandemic: AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health (National Library of Medicine, 2021).

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, alexandrajuhasz.com, is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She has been making and thinking about AIDS activist video since the mid-80s. She is the author/editor of scholarly books on AIDS including AIDS TV (Duke, 1995) and AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (with Jih-Fei Cheng and Nishant Shahani, 2020), fake (and real) documentaries, YouTube, and black lesbian filmmaking (with Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking, Duke 2018). Her current work is on and about feminist Internet culture: fakenews-poetry.org.