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AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism, presented at the Museum of the City of New York from May to October 2017, aimed to complement and complicate popular narratives about the history of HIV/AIDS by examining how HIV/AIDS played out in the everyday lives of diverse communities in New York. The exhibition placed works of art alongside documentary photography, film, and archival materials in unique ways to ask visitors to rethink what counts as activism and to reconsider home as a crucial political space. This paper reflects on the ways the curator sought to activate the domestic archive—the everyday ephemera and affects of illness, caretaking, and family life.

In the 1970s, ethnic comedy had gone mainstream. Stephen Vider zeroes in on the era's biggest black sitcom and its Jewish writers: in one episode, the roles are hilariously reversed. But does this easy flip reflect real kinship or suppress dramatic differences? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of treatment of homosexuality shows that psychiatry may need a cure of its own [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An interview is presented with television personality and fashion critic Tim Gunn from the reality television series "Project Runway." Gunn discusses the Internet meme "Academic Tim Gunn" from the blogging website Tumblr that compared him to college professor, and his teaching work for Parsons the New School for Design is mentioned. Gunn's Socratic approach to design critiques and his role as a mentor are also mentioned.