The bugchaser is quite an interesting “relational queer figure” (Chen, 2011, p. 265). As being infected with HIV is what the bugchaser desires, it is important to pay detailed attention to the relationalities that are encompassed between the virus and its toxicity. As Mel Y. Chen (2011) argues, “Toxins – toxin figures […] have moved well beyond their specific range of biological attribution, leaking out of nominal and literal bounds while retaining their affective ties to vulnerability and repulsion” (p. 266). This suggests that toxicity has moved beyond the environmental sphere to a social metaphor that expresses public panic and terror for any kind of social or biological difference.
In this scenario, as Chen provocatively suggests, some
In this scenario, as Chen provocatively suggests, some