EXCERPTS FROM AN EPIDEMIC
THANK YOU
This project would not have been possible without the help and support from numerous people and organizations around the world. I am deeply grateful for their participation and guidance over the past 9 months. This acknowledgement of their involvement in my passion project is insufficient to truly express my sincere gratitude for their contributions. Thank you to the following:
• My interviewees for agreeing to spend time during a global pandemic with me to share your stories and memories about your lived experiences with the AIDS epidemic
• My advisory board, Radhika Balakrishnan, Khurram Hassan, Mehboob Vellani, and Anirvan Chatterjee, for sharing your wisdom and connecting me with your network of resources
• Dadasaheb, Efad, Nargis, Omme, and Savannah, my ACF cohort, for your fellowship & friendship over the past 9 months
• Samip, Maryam, Niv, and Kavya for helping me realize my project vision and bringing it to life
• My research assistants, Conor & Marla, for diligently searching archives and cataloguing materials
• My friends - Sumon, Jess, Mike, Samrit, Meris, Michael, Shoshana, Ali, Mary, and Charlotte, and my family - mom, dad, and Nishanth, for your endless words of encouragement
• My husband Ryan for your creative input, editorial feedback, emotional support and love
• My advisory board, Radhika Balakrishnan, Khurram Hassan, Mehboob Vellani, and Anirvan Chatterjee, for sharing your wisdom and connecting me with your network of resources
• Dadasaheb, Efad, Nargis, Omme, and Savannah, my ACF cohort, for your fellowship & friendship over the past 9 months
• Samip, Maryam, Niv, and Kavya for helping me realize my project vision and bringing it to life
• My research assistants, Conor & Marla, for diligently searching archives and cataloguing materials
• My friends - Sumon, Jess, Mike, Samrit, Meris, Michael, Shoshana, Ali, Mary, and Charlotte, and my family - mom, dad, and Nishanth, for your endless words of encouragement
• My husband Ryan for your creative input, editorial feedback, emotional support and love
There are countless others as well, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Love,
Nikhil
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To learn more about HIV and AIDS, and about various archival collections dedicated to preserving stories about AIDS, gay liberation, and South Asian American history, please visit the following additional resources.
HIV / AIDS
AIDS Clinical Trials Group
Avert: Global Information & Education on HIV and AIDS
The Body: The HIV/AIDS Resource
CDC: HIV
HIV.gov
NIH: U.S. National Library of Medicine - HIV/AIDS
AIDS MEMORIALS & COLLECTIONS
ACT Up Oral History Project
AIDS Activist History Project
AIDS History Project
The AIDS Monument - Los Angeles
The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway - Seattle
Atif Toor Collection on the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA)
Black AIDS Institute
History of Public Health at Harvard: HIV/AIDS
The National AIDS Memorial & AIDS Memorial Quilt Virtual Exhibition
New York City AIDS Memorial
New York Public Library: Gay & Lesbian Collection and AIDS/HIV Collection
OTHER ARCHIVES
The Arquives - Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives
The Chicago Gay History Project
The Dragon Fruit Project: An Intergenerational API LGBTQ Oral History Project
GLBT Historical Society: Museum & Archive
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
LGBTQ History: Oral History Digital Colaboratory
Queer Asian American Collection
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
Out History - Activism & Organizing Timeline: 1836 - Present
QUEER SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS
Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
KhushDC
SALGA
Satrang
Trikone
OTHER RESOURCES
APICHA Community Health Center
Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill A Museum