The World Would be Better if They Hadn\u27t Died: Alexandra Juhasz with Don’t Rhine

In Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in LA, eds. Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak. When we chatted for an hour before to prepare, the first thing I asked you was how old you are. I’m 52, and you’re 54. But we realized that we didn’t know a lot about our shared history because we met in an activist part of the AIDS scene in Los Angeles. I picked up pieces about your history, and we’ve even collaborated, but I actually don’t know that much about you personally. Checking in before this public conversation, one of the things we realized is that we were both in ACT UP, as very young people. I was in ACT UP New York, when I came to the city from college and joined when it started. I was 22 or 23