In the second episode of Imminent Domains, Alessandra sits down community organizer Robert Birch to hear personal stories from the HIV/AIDS pandemic. They discuss queer lineage and community care, speak about death, dying, and ecological grief, and discuss how we can love this world more fiercely. "In these movements," Birch shares, "there are extraordinary skills and strategies of how to continue to love in the face of horror and violence. At the end of the episode, he adds: “For those of us who have been told that we don't matter, that should suggest to us how much we do matter; that the world's violence is trying to cut us off from the very resource that can help us evolve more consciously, and that's one another.

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In this episode, Alessandra also shares a the opening of her book "Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene," (Book*hug Bress) which takes place in a community that once acted as a queer hospice in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Robert Birch reads his work from "Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up in the AIDS Crisis," (Arsenal Pulp Press). You can find the episodes, books and more at alessandranaccarato.com/imminent domains