Gregg Bordowitz (Books)

Gregg Bordowitz Books

Gregg Bordowitz, as an artist and activist, primarily engages with themes of activism surrounding HIV/AIDS. His work scrutinizes media representations of the epidemic, confronting societal reactions to illness, fear, and mortality. Bordowitz's approach is often confrontational and uncompromising, prioritizing authentic portrayals of the experiences of people living with AIDS. His pieces, woven with personal experience, call for political recognition of the burdens of sickness and despair.

Some Styles of Masculinity

240 pages
9 hours of reading

Some Styles of Masculinity is an intimate, urgent, and rollicking account of thinking and enduring through upheaval and plague. Prompted by the surge of white nationalism in the United States, Gregg Bordowitz reflects on his experience of assimilation and marginalization as a Yinglish-speaking child of outer-borough Jews and a queer person who has been living with AIDS since his twenties. He tells his own story by considering three totems of masculinity that were formative to him as he came of age in New York City in the 1970s and '80s: the rock star, the rabbi, and the comedian. These figures taught Bordowitz how to balance reinvention and tradition, and how to be different even as difference is under assault