Professor Jennifer Breyer

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Lesbian Blood Sisters of the HIV Crisis · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, I think there's so much in that quote to unpack, but at its fundamentally, it describes precisely what it felt like to have nothing left to give but your blood.

And, you know, we could rehearse all the ways that women are always part of the caretaking economy, are always at the forefront of that sort of devotional, whatever it is.

And we could talk about the misogyny of that and we could talk about the lesbophobia of it.

We could talk about the fundamental disregard for care as something that is meaningfully, economically sustaining.

We could talk about all those things.

But at its core, what they were doing was responding to a crisis that was happening all around them.

The part that's tricky is the sense that lesbians were immune because, of course, we weren't.

We were not.

Those lesbians, it was not happening in their community.

But a couple hours north of them in Los Angeles and a couple hours north still in San Francisco, it most certainly was.

Well, and also we don't, this is also a moment and it lasts for a very long time where we only know what AIDS looks like

for men.

We don't know what AIDS yet looks like for women.

Women are vectors.

So the other piece of this is, so the lesbians are immune part, that Barbara Vick quote, it's so important.

And it's about their understanding of the world, the world that they were living in and what they saw happening and the other language that's existing at this time around women and

and here they're not necessarily talking about homosexuals or lesbians, they're talking about straight women or people they believe are straight.

Again, remember the identity, it's not the behavior, is that sex, you know, prostitutes, sex workers were vectors.

They were the thing that spread.

So it's weird, like how do you have these two things at the same time?

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