Dan Royles

Dec 1, 2023 | nursingclio.org | Dan Royles

In his new book Love Your Asian Body, writer Eric Wat uses oral history to tell the stories of Asian American AIDS activists who confronted the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s. His book is an important contribution to our understanding of AIDS and AIDS activism during that time, since stories of white gay men still dominate both scholarly and popular narratives of AIDS history.

Apr 27, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Dan Royles |Silke-Maria Weineck |Aaron Lecklider |Annelise Orleck

; 4/28/2023 Roundup DeSantis's Real Campus Attack is on Labor by Dan Royles "I’m exhausted because I teach U.S. history, including African American and LGBTQ+ history, at a public university in Florida." This places the author at the intersection of DeSantis's public attacks on verboten ideas and his quieter steps to gut tenure protections for the state's faculty and union representation for all educators in Florida. Will the Battle of the Suburbs Play Out Differently This Time? by Lily...

Apr 27, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Dan Royles

SOURCE: The Baffler 4/27/2023 Roundup tags: Florida, academic labor, Ron DeSantis by Dan Royles Dan Royles is an assistant professor or history at Florida International University and author of To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS (University of North Carolina Press). He is currently working on a biography of Claude Brown, author of the 1965 memoir Manchild in the Promised Land. I’M EXHAUSTED.

Mar 19, 2023 | goodgoodgood.co | Dan Royles

The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, has revolutionized the fight against global AIDS over the last 20 years. ‍In that time, the U.S. program has brought antiretroviral treatment to nearly 19 million people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS; prevented mother-to-child transmission of HIV for 2.8 million babies; and brought HIV testing and prevention services to millions of others.

Mar 3, 2023 | portside.org | Dan Royles

A version of the following comments was delivered at the opening of the exhibit An Elegy to Rosewood at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Rosewood Massacre, when hundreds of whites descended on the nearly all-Black community of Rosewood, Florida, intent on wiping out any trace of the town and its people.