ABSTRACT
From one minute to the next, the simple fact of saying ‘I’m alive’ has become a political act. To affirm myself as a citizen who is perfectly alive is an act of civil disobedience. For this reason, ever since I found out that I had AIDS, I constantly repeat that I am alive and that I am a citizen. I have no deficiency that makes me immune to civil rights, in spite of abundant propaganda to the contrary.
