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In 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. At the same time, the activists were a queer chosen family of friends and lovers who took care of one another in sickness and in health. Sometimes they helped each other die. By the time Lane turned twenty-two, most had died of AIDS. In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Lane interrogates the social construction of power against and in queer communities of color and the recovery of sexual agency in the midst and aftermath of violence. Luminous and powerfully moving, Blood Loss explores survival after those we love have died.

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“Keiko Lane’s Blood Loss travels back through the heart of AIDS Activism with fierce love and a dazzling, devotional desire to bring the story back to life. What I found in these pages was history, memory, hope, fight, and a heart beating, not beaten. This book is a brilliant love letter to those we lost and a message for all of us who remember. We must keep telling the stories for those who carry on next.” -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of * The Chronology of Water * “Keiko Lane is a powerful writer and Blood Loss is especially notable for its perspective of a young Asian American queer woman AIDS activist. Lane describes a significant conflict in herself: between her duty to protest on behalf of others and her deeply ingrained cultural survival tactic of avoiding notice in order to avoid violence. Viscerally evocative on every page, Blood Loss is historically significant as a work of Asian American literature, women’s literature, and queer activist history.” -- Alexander Chee, author of * How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays *

"""Keiko Lane's Blood Loss travels back through the heart of AIDS Activism with fierce love and a dazzling, devotional desire to bring the story back to life. What I found in these pages was history, memory, hope, fight, and a heart beating, not beaten. This book is a brilliant love letter to those we lost and a message for all of us who remember. We must keep telling the stories for those who carry on next.""--Lidia Yuknavitch, author of ""The Chronology of Water"""

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Keiko Lane is an independent scholar and practicing psychotherapist.

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