between this and that “gen z political revolution” playlist w zombie by the cranberries its rlly clear the gen z idea of revolution is just seeing things made irt past events that dont affect them and going “what if i took this out of context and removed all original meaning in order to try to make it about me”
actually i need to complain about this more cause im mad about it.
the image this is mimicking, this jacket worn by david wojnarowicz at a 1988 aids demonstration, cant be removed from the political context of the fact he was diagnosed with aids in the same year. it cant be removed from the political context of the fact people diagnosed with aids attending demonstrations was inherently a form of protest itself when propaganda surrounding aids told people false claims that sharing the same spaces, having any contact with, even just breathing the same air as someone with aids could give you aids.
it cant be removed from the political context of the fact in a 1991 memoir he spoke about the idea of people driving to washington dc and leaving the bodies of their loved ones killed by inaction over aids on the front steps of the white house. it cant be removed from the political context of the fact this inspired, four months after david wojnarowiczs death caused by aids in 1992, david robinson to scatter the ashes of his partner warren krause on the white house lawn as a protest against bushs inaction surrounding aids. it cant be removed from the political context of the fact david wojnarowizs own ashes were also scatted on the white house lawn in 1996.
the aids crisis in the us was not something which merely existed to provide acts of protest to be taken out of context and awkwardly vaguely mimicked by future generations, it was america seeing a disease that primarily affected people it deemed undesirable and responding by attempting genocide by inaction.
