{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Hm, just now grokking the significance of the AIDS Memorial Quilt being a quilt, that quilting was a symbol of the exact small...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/615901205205549056/", "html": "<p>Hm, just now grokking the significance of the AIDS Memorial Quilt being a <i>quilt</i>, that quilting was a symbol of the exact small town/country domesticity that the iconic urban gay man of the period, and thus victim, was seen as running away from or a negation of.</p><p>So taking that form was really a highlighting a countercultural claim of continuity with Normie old ladydom</p>"}