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((Holy Fuck My Life!))

"Disclosure is that moment you keep coming back to but you never repeat. Wait for an appropriate moment. Disclose. Wait. I come back to this moment, to you, differently each time. Like memories, our disclosures evolve over time, each iteration building upon the last, shifting with time, context, familiarity, or relationship. As a moment, a disclosure will pass, just as I pass from disclosure to disclosure, sometimes invisible or sometimes marked with the sign of my secret (a scar, a pill, a picture of me on the internet). Many people see disclosure as a means to authenticity, that when I disclose you will get to know the “real me” but it does not reveal anything more than my relationship with you. Disclosure is of the self, but not in the self: the moment is not about you or I, but about us." 

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So when did you figure out how to do an interview about your art practice? 

Oh look! An article on me written by Simon Thibault for Xtra.ca!

“‘Disclosure is a huge part of my everyday experience,’ he says. ‘It structures how I relate with people, the state, myself.’

Those disclosures encompass his life as an HIV-positive gay man living in the 21st Century. It is a life marked by sex, the internet and the politics that lie therein.”

DOCUMENTATION OF A WORK THAT I THOUGHT WAS GONE FOREVER.

On Resistance. 

Resistance is a fraught term. I am told to fear it: this is the last word that I ever want to hear from my doctor. But in resistance there is also power. I want to resist the apocalyptic narratives that I have written for myself, that have been written about me. I want to resist the notion that my HIV diagnosis was inevitable, because I was a faggot, because I was a slut, because I was alone. I want to resist a society that would blame me for my choices, that would reinforce my fears at every turn with laws that criminalize non-disclosure and promote a culture of stigma and apathy that robs everyone of the agency to self-determine their own sexual health and well-being. I want to resist the virus in my body in order to live a long, happy, and meaningful life.