Book Launch Afterparty

JOIN US FOR A FREE AFTER-PARTY

With a reading by author Renate Stendhal from her new memoir, “Kiss Me Again, Paris”.

First, from 4-6pm at Laurel Bookstore join author-activist Anne-christine d’Adesky for the Bay Area Book Launch of her forthcoming memoir, The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris, University of Wisconsin Press, 2017.

http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/anne-christine-dadesky-conversation-keiko-lane

Called “a masterpiece” by Michelle Tea, The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris, is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by Anne-christine d’Adesky, a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, d’Adesky remembers “the poxed generation” of AIDS — their lives, their battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived.

D’Adesky is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker who reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York Native, OUT, The Nation, and The Village Voice. She received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. She was an early member of ACT UP and cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers. Her books include The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris (June, 2017), Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti, Under the Bone.