A Fire in My Belly: David Wojnarowicz’s Art and Activism Revisited
Since his childhood, Wojnarowicz’s environment was gripped with violence, and violence, too, seeped into his visual and written essays that acknowledge the struggles of a queer artist with the voice of a dying artist that fights back with howling fury. One of his most striking images is “Silence = Death,” the slogan of Aids activists: a photograph of himself with a stitched mouth.