The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which virus