ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents an over two-hour conversation with Patti Lather and Chris Smithies on their collaborative processes as they created the work that became Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS. In spite of Patti's insistence that she participle more fully as interviewer, she was still envisioning a chapter with Patti and Chris as authors " interviewed by Walter S. Gershon". She begins by stating that Patti and Chris would receive copies of the audio recording and transcripts, review the final version pre-submission to the publisher, and have full veto power of any aspect of the chapter they found problematic. She wishes to again thank and publicly acknowledge Patti and Chris for their candor kindness, and participation as well as for a wonderful conversation full of intelligence, wit and laughter. She provides both the organizational structure and complexity needed to convey the warp and weft of the interwoven themes and meanings that surfaced over the course.
