THE BODY: This Community Based Project Is Using $100K to Excavate Miami’s HIV History

In this article on the Miami AIDS Memorials Project (MAMP), author Theodore Kerr writes about AIDS Memorial’s strategies for community enagement. He says, “Leaning into community engagement is foundational to the history of AIDS memorials. Two of the earliest endeavors were 1986’s Texas AIDS Memorial Garden in Houston and Cleve Jones’ NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which debuted in Washington in 1987. While both of these were about honoring the dead, they were also activities that needed participation, be it tending to the garden or making a quilt panel. More recently, organizations like the New York City AIDS Memorial have offered a robust calendar of programming to ensure people are visiting the memorial, both to remember loved ones who have passed away and to honor the fact that AIDS is not over.”