Legalize Positivity will be distributed at the upcoming Comics Velocity show in New York! Legalize Positivity is a brief abolitionist comics history about HIV criminalization commissioned by Visual Aids and drawn by Clio Sady and myself. Come through!

Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics

PS122 Gallery
150 1st Avenue

New York, NY

June 11–July 11, 2021
Gallery Hours: Thurs—Sun, 1–6PM
Opening Event: Saturday, June 12, 1–6PM

Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics, curated by Paul Sammut for Visual AIDS, explores how artists and activists have used comics to create and shape conversations about HIV and AIDS.

Comic Velocity collects both historical and contemporary educational material, activist projects and artists’ works that demonstrate how the medium of comics continues to contribute to the public understanding of HIV and AIDS through its democracy, accessibility and immediacy. The exhibition features a selection of items from the UK HIV/AIDS Graphic Communication Archive, and the work of creators Alison Bechdel; Remy Boydell with Michelle Perez; Howard Cruse; Jennifer Camper; Kate Charlesworth; Chris Companik; Jon Eikenberg; James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook, and David Wojnarowicz; Carlos Sánchez Becerra; David Shenton; Michael Slocum and many others.

As part of the exhibition, four newly commissioned comics projects from J. Amaro & A. Andrews, Inés Ixierda & Clio Sady, Carlo Quispe, and Mel Rattue will be available as free take-aways. These new works explore contemporary issues and experiences surrounding HIV/AIDS such as HIV criminalization, women’s’ anti-stigma activism, and the fear of getting tested. Launched online in summer 2020, these new comics can also be viewed here.