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In the Old Days it Was measles, TB, and Smallpox, Now It’s AIDS

Feather of Hope Aboriginal AIDS Prevention Societycirca 1995

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University
Miami Beach, United States

This design positions HIV and AIDS as a twentieth-century colonizer’s disease, with the ability to devastate Native communities in the same way that tuberculosis and smallpox initially had centuries before. Organizing against AIDS, the poster asserts, is anti-colonial activism.

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  • Title: In the Old Days it Was measles, TB, and Smallpox, Now It’s AIDS
  • Creator: Feather of Hope Aboriginal AIDS Prevention Society
  • Date: circa 1995
  • Location Created: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Rights: The Wolfsonian–FIU, Gift of Henry S. Hacker & Family
  • Art Form: Poster
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University

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