"retrovirology captures the urgency that few books contain: This book is a remembrance of those who passed away during the AIDS epidemic, but equally, it is an altar built to honor those Ancestors of that mournful time. And I say, now in this new year, in this new place—where some are trying to take us back to an old place—now is the time for urgency. Now is the time for those Ancestors’ wisdom. Now is the time to call their names: Larry Kramer and Gaëton Dugas. Now is the time to speak back against erasure. To reclaim this history. This crucial fierceness. Now: This remembrance that is painful but also beautiful. Now: A taking up space on the page and within the spirit. And I’m so grateful to have read this book—I’m so grateful that it chose me in this time. " --Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
