[Photograph of the back of a person wearing a jacket. On the jacket is a pink triangle and the words “if I die of AIDS – forget burial – just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A.]

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David Wojnarowicz wore this jacket in 1988, just 4 years before he’d ultimately die from AIDS. Sadly, just a few years ago some of his artistic work was censored at the Smithsonian. People in power are still content to try and erase his history and the continued struggles of people with AIDS

Hadn’t heard of David Wojnarowicz before (I’m a mere interested layperson when it comes to art.) He did some fascinating, challenging stuff. To quote from Wikipedia: 

After a period outside of New York, he returned in the later ‘70s, where he quickly emerged as one of the most prominent and prolific of an avant-garde wing that mixed media, made and used graffiti and street art; his first recognition came from stencils of houses afire that appeared on the exposed sides of buildings in the East Village. He made super-8 films, such as Heroin, began a photographic series of Arthur Rimbaud, did stencil work, played in a band called 3 Teens Kill 4, and exhibited his work in well-known East Village galleries. [..] Peter Hujar’s death moved Wojnarowicz’s work into much more explicit activism and political content, notably around the injustices, social and legal, inherent in the response to the AIDS epidemic.