Nels Highberg

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Nels Highberg (he/they) is an essayist, mixed media artist, and professor of English and modern languages at the University of Hartford who received an Artistic Excellence Award for his writing from the State of Connecticut in 2020.

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Cover Photo: Detail from David Wojnarowicz’s “Fuck You Faggot Fucker” (1984)/P·P·O·W Gallery
It’s More Than Just “Two Boys Kissing”

David Wojnarowicz captured the chaos of living as a gay man in the 1980s and early 1990s with HIV overshadowing everything we did and felt.

May 02, 2022