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2 episodes with act up new york
2 episodes with act up new york
3 episodes with act up new york
In a powerful interview, author Sarah Schulman reflects on decades of activism, from fighting AIDS to advocating for Palestinian liberation, revealing key lessons learned along the way.SAVE THE DATE July 16th 7pm EDT: Laura hosts an online conversation just for our donors. It's a chance to connect, ask questions, and hear what's coming up behind the scenes. Make a one off donation or become a sustaining member by making it monthly go to LauraFlanders.org/donate. This show is made possible by you! Description: What is “solidarity” and what does it require? Giving up on perfection, for one thing, says Sarah Schulman, author of “Conflict is Not Abuse,” and so much more. Award-winning writer, teacher, playwright and activist, Schulman's latest book is “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity”, in which she reflects on years of experiments and learning, from the 1980s to today. In this episode, find out what role GRITtv, an earlier iteration of Flanders' show, played in the movement for Palestinian liberation, and hear a discussion of the Harlem artist Alice Neel. Schulman sits on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her non-fiction books include “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair” and “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”. Also in this episode, a commentary from Laura on the assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, a strategic progressive who practiced solidarity.“When I confronted the Israeli occupation of Palestine, something resonated for me emotionally between that and the AIDS experience. What I felt was similar was that people who were endangered were being falsely depicted as dangerous.” - Sarah Schulman“Right now we're in the middle of a cataclysm of fascism and there's no quick fix. And we have to understand that the idea that you can go in and just fix it is a supremacy concept.” - Sarah SchulmanGuests: Sarah Schulman, Writer & AIDS Historian; Author, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate Watch the special report released on YouTube June 20th 5pm ET; PBS World Channel June 22nd, and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show) & available as a podcast June 25th.Full Uncut Conversation Release: While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast on Public TV and community radio, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation. Full Episode Notes are located HERE. RESOURCES-Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:• Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• Jacqueline Woodson & Catherine Gund: Breathing Through Chaos & the “Meanwhile”: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• GRITtv: Sarah Schulman: Emerging Palestinian Queer Movement: Watch Related Articles and Resources:• ‘They're Coming After All of Us.' You Might as Well Tell the Truth. The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose. By Lydia Polgreen, Produced by Vishakha Darbha, April 10, 2025, The Opinion - New York Times• The Vault: ACT UP protesters tue up traffic in lower Manhattan in 1988, NY Eyewitness News ABC 7• Jewish peace activists hold sit-in protest at Grand Central to demand ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict, October 27, 2023, PIX11 News-NY• Alice Neel Documentary on the life and work of Alice Need (1900—1984), American portrait painter. November 18, 2009, Official Trailer• Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman Present, United In Anger, A History of ACT-UP, a film by Jim Hubbard. Learn More Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, along with Sabrina Artel, Jeremiah Cothren, Veronica Delgado, Janet Hernandez, Jeannie Hopper, Gina Kim, Sarah Miller, Nat Needham, David Neuman, and Rory O'Conner. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel
As fascist threats escalate globally, activist and playwright Sarah Schulman argues that achieving real change requires embracing imperfection and rejecting "supremacy concepts" – listen as she explains what this means for social justice movements today.Description: What is “solidarity” and what does it require? Giving up on perfection, for one thing, says Sarah Schulman, author of “Conflict is Not Abuse,” and so much more. Award-winning writer, teacher, playwright and activist, Schulman's latest book is “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity”, in which she reflects on years of experiments and learning, from the 1980s to today. In this episode, find out what role GRITtv, an earlier iteration of Flanders' show, played in the movement for Palestinian liberation, and hear a discussion of the Harlem artist Alice Neel. Schulman sits on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her non-fiction books include “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair” and “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”. Also in this episode, a commentary from Laura on the assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, a strategic progressive who practiced solidarity.“When I confronted the Israeli occupation of Palestine, something resonated for me emotionally between that and the AIDS experience. What I felt was similar was that people who were endangered were being falsely depicted as dangerous.” - Sarah Schulman“Right now we're in the middle of a cataclysm of fascism and there's no quick fix. And we have to understand that the idea that you can go in and just fix it is a supremacy concept.” - Sarah SchulmanGuests: Sarah Schulman, Writer & AIDS Historian; Author, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate Full Conversation Release: While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast on Public TV and community radio, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation. These audio exclusives are made possible thanks to our member supporters.Watch the special report released on YouTube June 20th 5pm ET; PBS World Channel June 22nd, and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show) & available as a podcast June 25th. Full Episode Notes are located HERE. RESOURCES-Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:• Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• Jacqueline Woodson & Catherine Gund: Breathing Through Chaos & the “Meanwhile”: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• GRITtv: Sarah Schulman: Emerging Palestinian Queer Movement: Watch Related Articles and Resources:• ‘They're Coming After All of Us.' You Might as Well Tell the Truth. The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose. By Lydia Polgreen, Produced by Vishakha Darbha, April 10, 2025, The Opinion - New York Times• The Vault: ACT UP protesters tue up traffic in lower Manhattan in 1988, NY Eyewitness News ABC 7• Jewish peace activists hold sit-in protest at Grand Central to demand ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict, October 27, 2023, PIX11 News-NY• Alice Neel Documentary on the life and work of Alice Need (1900—1984), American portrait painter. November 18, 2009, Official Trailer• Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman Present, United In Anger, A History of ACT-UP, a film by Jim Hubbard. Learn More Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, along with Sabrina Artel, Jeremiah Cothren, Veronica Delgado, Janet Hernandez, Jeannie Hopper, Gina Kim, Sarah Miller, Nat Needham, David Neuman, and Rory O'Conner. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel
Author Sarah Schulman talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about her new book “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity” published by Penguin Random House. Schulman is a longtime social activist from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain to NYC's AIDS activism in the 1990s to campus protest movements against Israel's war on Gaza and beyond bringing her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male-dominated culture industries. In these challenging times as our democracy is at a moral crossroad, this must-read book couldn't be more timely. For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book Sarah delves into the intricate and often misunderstood concept of solidarity to provide a new vision for what it means to engage in this work and why it matters. Here in America with this new administration we're beginning to understand and realize that the only people that will save us from this authoritarian regime are ourselves. Drawing parallels between queer, Jewish, feminist and artistic struggles for justice Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals arguing that in today's world of globalized power structures true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed. Currently in America we are learning that action comes at a cost and it is not always as effective as we would like it to be but doing nothing is far more dangerous. We talked to Sarah about these current issues and her inspiration for writing “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity”. Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian. Her books include The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse and Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 and the novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Schulman's honors include a Fulbright in Judaic Studies, a Guggenheim in Playwriting and honors from Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the American Library Association and others. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times and The Guardian. Schulman holds an endowed chair in creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. For More Info… LISTEN: 600+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES
John Weir is the author of two novels, the Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, winner of the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men‘s Debut Fiction, and What I Did Wrong. His collection of linked stories Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, Linked Stories won theGrace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.He is an associate professor of English at Queens College CUNY where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation. In 1991 with members of Act Up New York, he interrupted Dan Rather's CBS Evening News to protest government and media neglect of AIDS. His nonfiction pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone,Spin, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast and many anthologies, including the Columbia Reader in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Taking Liberties and Beyond Queer He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today John joins us to discuss his novels and writing during the AIDS pandemic.
On this episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed and Zach share more of their favorite modern scriptures – the literary works that they frequently turn to.We want to hear from you! Email us at vibecheck@stitcher.com, and keep in touch with us on Instagram @vibecheck_pod.You can now get direct access to the group chat! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/vibecheck. ------------------------------------------------------Modern Scriptures:ZACH: “Godspeed” by Frank OceanJames Baldwin being interviewed in the Village Voice in 1984 in a piece titled ”Go the Way Your Blood Beats,” when asked about queerness in regards to race.SAM: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 by Sarah SchulmanCue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum [Chapter 3: The Betrayal (about An American Family)]Alone in Miami by Remi WolfSAEED: “Flood” by Kim Addonizo from her book TELL MESULA by Toni Morrison
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Who is still covering Long COVID, and how much is the audience actually growing? That's today's big question, and my guests are Betsy Ladygetz and Miles Griffis, editors and co-founders of The Sick Times, a journalist-founded website chronicling the Long COVID crisis. The Sick Times investigates injustices, challenges powerful institutions, wades through the latest research, assesses COVID-19 data, and offers an essential platform for those most affected by the crisis. Betsy is an independent science, health, and data journalist and writer focused on COVID-19 and the future of public health in general. Prior to The Sick Times, she ran the COVID-19 Data Dispatch. She was recently a journalism fellow at MuckRock, where she contributed to award-winning and impactful COVID-19 investigations, such as the Uncounted Project, investigations into the National Institute of Health's Recover Program, and stories covering public health responses in several states.Miles is an independent journalist and writer who covers Long COVID, science, and LGBTQ plus issues. He developed Long COVID at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and has used his lived experience to report on the disease. So many people are struggling directly or indirectly with Long COVID. Sometimes they don't even know themselves, but with journalism just crumbling around us, new publications like The Sick Times operated by people with very particular essential skills and lived experiences can help make sure that these massive all all-encompassing issues of our lifetimes stay in the news, giving everyone else a way to stay in touch, and of course, to act. -----------Have feedback or questions? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.comNew here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com.-----------INI Book Club:The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton NolanLet the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah SchulmanFind all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-clubLinks:Subscribe and donate to The Sick TimesFind a Mask Bloc near youSupport the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy ProjectSupport the Patient-Led Research CollaborativeSupport the Long Covid Action ProjectLearn about diseases related to Long Covid and support
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The novelist, playwright, activist, and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman discusses her most recent book, Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York [1987-1993], a landmark document of the activist response to the AIDS crisis. Schulman describes the triumphs, challenges, and simultaneous histories of ACT UP, and what they teach us about movements in general.
Commons Conversations was a summer series of interviews in which campaigners shared their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program was broadcast by Community Radio 3CR and produced by the Commons Social Change Library, a website containing over 1000 resources for campaigners, which can be accessed for free at commonslibrary.orgThis episode features an interview by Commons Librarian Holly Hammond with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and historian Sarah Schulman. They discuss the nature of effective coalitions, the challenges of accurately documenting social movements, and lessons from campaigns led by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) during the 1980s and 1990s. A participant in the campaigns, Schulman's book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, is based on over 200 interviews with those involved in the fight for healthcare and justice for people living with AIDS and HIV.
We got together on the first day of 2023 to review our top books of 2022 and we're already busy reading books to discuss this year. Time was too short to talk about all of our favorite books but you can see a full list of our 5 star reads from 2022 as well as a list of all the books we mention in this episode on our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. Our year in review episode is always fun because we ask our guests from the past 12 months to tell us about their favorite book. It brings back great memories to hear all their voices again. Books mentioned in this episode: 1- Babel by RF Kuang 2- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 3- The Stone Loves the World by Brian Hall 4- I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall 5- Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman 6- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone 7- The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken 8- The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin 9- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia 10- Where I Can't Follow by Ashley Blooms 11- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch 12- Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen 13- The Monsters of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny 14- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborthy 15- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab 16- Gallant by VE Schwab 17- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert 18- Devolution by Max Brooks 19- Leech by Hiron Ennes 20- Finna by Nino Cipri 21- Defekt by Nino Cipri 22- Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta 22- Sweet Berries (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta 23- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith 24- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 25- Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class by Dan Canon 26- Ban This Book by Alan Gratz 27- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 28- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk 29- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo 30- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera 31- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller 32- The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 33- What's So Funny? A Cartoonist's Memoir by David Sipress 35- Girl at War by Sara Nović 36- Haven by Emma Donoghue 37- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 38- Champagne Widows (Veuve Clicquot) by Rebecca Rosenberg 39- The Guncle by Steven Rowley 40 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 41- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby 42- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham 43- How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder 44- The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar by Michael Judge 45- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet 46- Thistlefoot by Jenna Rose Nethercott 47- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 48- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Movie - Nightmare Alley ( 2022) App - Storygraph
We got together on the first day of 2023 to review our top books of 2022 and we're already busy reading books to discuss this year. Time was too short to talk about all of our favorite books but you can see a full list of our 5 star reads from 2022 as well as a list of all the books we mention in this episode on our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. Our year in review episode is always fun because we ask our guests from the past 12 months to tell us about their favorite book. It brings back great memories to hear all their voices again. Books mentioned in this episode: 1- Babel by RF Kuang 2- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 3- The Stone Loves the World by Brian Hall 4- I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall 5- Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman 6- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone 7- The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken 8- The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin 9- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia 10- Where I Can't Follow by Ashley Blooms 11- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch 12- Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen 13- The Monsters of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny 14- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborthy 15- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab 16- Gallant by VE Schwab 17- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert 18- Devolution by Max Brooks 19- Leech by Hiron Ennes 20- Finna by Nino Cipri 21- Defect by Nino Cipri 22- Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta 22- Sweet Berries (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta 23- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith 24- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 25- Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class by Dan Canon 26- Ban This Book by Alan Gratz 27- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 28- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk 29- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo 30- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera 31- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller 32- The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 33- The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken 34- What's So Funny? A Cartoonist's Memoir by David Sipress 35- Girl at War by Sara Nović 36- Haven by Emma Donoghue 37- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 38- Champagne Widows (Veuve Clicquot) by Rebecca Rosenberg 39- The Guncle by Steven Rowley 40 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 41- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby 42- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham 43- How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder 44- The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar by Michael Judge 45- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet 46- Thistlefoot by Jenna Rose Nethercott 47- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 48- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Movie - Nightmare Alley ( 2022) App - Storygraph
IMRU RADIO 221129 (from 220620 World AIDS Day - The Plague Years) = AIDS Field Reports (Pacifica & IMRU) + Dr. Michael Gottleib (Discovered HIV, co-founded AmFar) + Richard Berkowitz (Author, “Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex") + Cleve Jones (conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt) + Sean Strub (founded POZ magazine, ACT UP New York activist, Author of "Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival") + David France (documentarian, "How to Survive a Plague") + Bob Dallmeyer (Activist, Poet). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message
IMRU RADIO 220620: Pride Special #03 (The Plague Years) = AIDS Field Reports (Pacifica & IMRU) + Dr. Michael Gottleib (Discovered HIV, co-founded AmFar) + Richard Berkowitz (Author, “Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex") + Cleve Jones (conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt) + Sean Strub (founded POZ magazine, ACT UP New York activist, Author of "Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival") + David France (documentarian, "How to Survive a Plague") + Bob Dallmeyer (Activist, Poet). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message
Aaron and James revisit Chrystos, Audre Lorde, and Minnie Bruce Pratt--three queer poets who were censored and attacked by Jesse Helm after winning fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting authors and indie bookstores. You can purchase books by the writers we discuss at Loyalty Books, a black-owned DC-based independent bookseller.Chrystos is a Menominee writer and two-spirit activist. Chrystos is a Scorpio. Their books include Not Vanishing, Dream On, In Her I Am, Fugitive Colors, and Fire Power. Read an interview with Chrystos here. Audre Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. Lorde was an Aquarius. She died of breast cancer in 1992. Her books include The First Cities, Cables to Rage, From a Land Where Other People Live, New York Head Shop, Coal, Between Our Selves, Hanging Fire, The Black Unicorn, The Cancer Journals, Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power, Chosen Poems: Old and New, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Our Dead Behind Us, A Burst of Light, The Marvelous Mathematics of Distance, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems, and I Am Your sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde. Read Lorde's essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" here. Dr. Minnie Bruce Pratt is a Virgo (Sept. 12). She was born in Selma, Alabama and received her BA from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her books includeThe Sound of One Fork, Crimes Against Nature, Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, We Say We Love Each Other, S/HE, Walking Back Up Depot Street, The Money Machine: Selected Poems, The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, Inside the Money Machine, and (most recently) Magnified. Read an interview with Pratt regarding her book Magnified (Wesleyan, 2021) here. We mention Sarah Schulmann and her book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. It was a 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and it was also one of NPR's Best Books of 2021.You can read Wanda Coleman's essay on Audre Lorde in the LA Times here.While her birthday is not exactly revealed in the show, many followers of the show Friends believe that Monica is a classic Virgo or perhaps a Taurus.
Today's "activism" is essentially a process of expressing collective community grievances and disgust, feeling there's either no control over situations or even how to react. Or hope that someone else will do it. Well, there's no someone else. Nor is there a blueprint for creating change. It's simple: "get out" and make sure every voter is informed on our issues and registered to vote. If there's a message that we believe, it is "Don't worry about rocking the boat because you are not in the boat, so rock it as hard and as often as you can." If you don't feel the wall at your back now, you should.instagram: @waybourninstagram: @fallingoutlgbtqpodtwitter: @fallinglgbtq
ACT UP was a landmark organization that took LGBTQ rights activism to a new level of in-your-face activism. Do we need to return to that kind of strategy abainst the new wave of homo- and trans-phobia? We talk to author Ron Goldberg today to get his input. We will be discussing the history of ACT UP New York and his upcoming book Boy With The Bullhorn . Boy With The Bullhorn:A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York is Goldberg's immersive and chronological history of the New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and a memoir of his coming of age during the darkest years of the AIDS epidemic, told with great energy and surprising humor with an intimate look into ACT UP's structure, processes, tactics and strategies. The book provides lessons and insights for new generations of activists, highlighting key demonstrations and lesser-known actions as the group successfully battles politicians, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, religious leaders, the media, and an often-uncaring public to change the course of the AIDS epidemic. Ron is a writer and activist. His articles have appeared in OutWeekand POZ magazines, Central Park, and The Visual AIDS Blog. Ron served as a research associate for filmmaker and journalist David France on his award-winning book, How to Survive a Plague, and enjoys speaking at high schools and colleges about the history of AIDS and the lessons and legacy of ACT UP. With Co-host Brody Levesque
ACT UP was a landmark organization that took LGBTQ rights activism to a new level of in-your-face activism. Do we need to return to that kind of strategy abainst the new wave of homo- and trans-phobia? We talk to author Ron Goldberg today to get his input. We will be discussing the history of ACT UP New York and his upcoming book Boy With The Bullhorn . Boy With The Bullhorn:A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York is Goldberg's immersive and chronological history of the New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and a memoir of his coming of age during the darkest years of the AIDS epidemic, told with great energy and surprising humor with an intimate look into ACT UP's structure, processes, tactics and strategies. The book provides lessons and insights for new generations of activists, highlighting key demonstrations and lesser-known actions as the group successfully battles politicians, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, religious leaders, the media, and an often-uncaring public to change the course of the AIDS epidemic. Ron is a writer and activist. His articles have appeared in OutWeekand POZ magazines, Central Park, and The Visual AIDS Blog. Ron served as a research associate for filmmaker and journalist David France on his award-winning book, How to Survive a Plague, and enjoys speaking at high schools and colleges about the history of AIDS and the lessons and legacy of ACT UP. With Co-host Brody Levesque
Cet épisode de La Poudre est disponible à l'écoute dans une version doublée en français. Cliquez sur l'épisode suivant pour l'écouter. Part of the discussion in this episode revolves around sexual violence. It may be triggering for survivors. -- “Me Too and Now?” is an eight-episode series to give the floor to sexual violence whistleblowers who have made and are still making the #MeToo revolution. Whether they have taken the mic, the keyboard or the pen, whether their testimonies have had judicial repercussions or not, they have put words on what is often silenced, they have said “me too”. But what comes next? What does one feel after speaking up? Do they feel stronger? More vulnerable? Do they feel heard, understood by society, by the justice system, by the media? By their closed ones? Is speaking up healing, or do they just get by? Episode Summary: Sarah Schulman is a thinker feminist activist and prolific writer, her books include novels, essays, theater plays, she is also a professor at the City University of New York (CUNY). She fought for abortion rights in the 70's, was an active member of Act Up and is now an advocate for the Jewish Voices for Peace collective,. With Lauren Bastide, she revisits her cult essay Conflict is not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair, published in 2016 and just translated in French (4'21). Her work has deeply enlightened the psycho-sociological field of conflict, in the intimate, public and geopolitcal frameworks, but also inside social movements themselves. A young generation of activists had sometimes seen this book - wrongly - as a reflexion about cancel culture (5'19). She actually draws a crucial distinction between conflict and abuse (10'32), and criticizes the victimization mechanism as a research for compassion, an impulse that can be found both from dominant (8'37) and traumatized people (9'22), causing an overstating of harm (11'49), escalation of violence, and eventually heavy reliance on State intervention, police and justice (14'15). Observing, as a lesbian woman, violences occuring in homophobic families towards queer people (22'12) but also, as a Jewish woman, violences from the State of Isreal towards the Palestinian people (23'26), she reaches the concept of negative loyalty (13'35). She calls for negotiation, self-criticism and nuance to put an end to this dynamic (20'43). She also mentions Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, and their importance in her education (25'08), the horizontal and efficient organization of Act Up New York in the 80s, which she deeply studied the oral archives for Let the record show, her last-published book in the US (42'19). Lastly, she raises the necessity for the feminist claims to be led by mixed movements to avoid backlash (52'46) and her reading of Alice Coffin's Lesbian Genius (55'35). Producer: Lauren Bastide Exclusively broadcasted on Spotify Opening title: Lauren Bastide and Marion Emerit on an original concept by Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Original music for the introduction: Jeanne Cherhal Editing, mixing: Marion Emerit Executive production: Gaïa Marty and Marie Laurence-Chérie with the help of Marie Vincent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This episode of La Poudre was originally recorded in English. To listen to the undubbed version, click on the previous episode. Dans cet épisode sont évoquées des violences sexuelles. Assurez-vous de l'écouter dans de bonnes conditions. -- « Moi aussi, et après ? » est une série de huit épisodes pour tendre le micro aux lanceuses d'alerte sur les violences sexuelles dont les prises de parole ont fait et font encore la révolution #MeToo. Qu'elles aient parlé ou écrit, que leur témoignage ait eu des répercussions juridiques ou non, elles ont posé des mots sur ce qui est souvent tu, elles ont dit « moi aussi ». Mais après ? Que ressent-on une fois qu'on a parlé ? Est-ce qu'on se sent plus forte ? Plus vulnérable ? Et surtout est-ce qu'on se sent écoutée, comprise par la société, par la justice, par les médias ? Par l'entourage ? Est-ce que parler répare, ou est-ce qu'on se débrouille ? Résumé de l'épisode : Sarah Schulman est une penseuse et militante féministe à la production foisonnante, romans, essais, pièces de théâtres, elle est aussi professeure à l'Université de la Ville de New York. Son militantisme l'a menée des luttes pro-IVG des 70's au collectif Jewish Voices for Peace en passant par Act Up. Avec Lauren Bastide, elle revient sur son essai culte Le conflit n'est pas une agression, sorti en 2016 et tout juste traduit en français (4'21). Sa thèse a profondément modifié les lectures psycho-sociologiques des dynamiques de conflit au plan intime, étatique, géopolitique, mais aussi au sein même des mouvements sociaux, au point que la jeune génération d'activistes y a parfois lu - à tort - une réflexion sur la cancel culture (5'19). S'appuyant sur une distinction fondamentale entre conflit et agression (10'32), Sarah Schulman dénonce le mécanisme de victimisation comme recherche de compassion, réflexe qu'on trouve tant chez les dominant-e-s (8'37) que chez les personnes souffrant de traumatisme (9'22). Ce réflexe entraîne un phénomène d'exagération du préjudice (11'49), engendrant à son tour une escalade de la violence et, à terme, le recours massif à l'intervention de l'État, de la police, de la justice (14'15). En observant, en tant que femme lesbienne, les violences exercées au sein des familles homophobes contre les personnes queer (22'12) mais aussi, en tant que femme juive, les violences d'état exercées par Israël contre les Palestiniens (23'26) elle aboutit au concept de loyauté négative : le fait de se liguer contre une personne par appartenance à un groupe (13'35). Et appelle à la négociation, à l'autocritique et à la nuance pour sortir de cette dynamique (20'43). Elle évoque l'importance dans sa construction des travaux d'Adrienne Rich et Audre Lorde (25'08). L'organisation militante, horizontale et efficace portée dans les années 80 par Act Up New York dont elle a longuement exploré les archives orales dans Let the record show, son dernier livre paru outre-Atlantique (42'19). Elle évoque enfin la nécessité que les revendications féministes soient portées par des mouvements mixtes afin d'éviter le backlash (52'46) et sa lecture du Génie lesbien d'Alice Coffin (55'35). La Poudre est une émission produite par Lauren Bastide, diffusée en exclusivité sur Spotify Générique : Lauren Bastide et Marion Emerit sur un concept original d'Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Musique originale de l'introduction : Jeanne Cherhal Montage et mixage : Marion Emerit Programmation et coordination : Gaïa Marty assistée de Marie Vincent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sam revisits his 2021 conversation with Sarah Schulman about ACT UP. The organization united a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. In Schulman's book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, she draws from nearly 200 interviews with ACT UP members to document the movement's history and explore how the group's activism transformed the way the media, the government, corporations and medical professionals talked about AIDS and provided treatment. Schulman and Sam discuss this transformation and its relevance to social movements today.You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at samsanders@npr.org.
We ticked another incredible guest off our guest wish list this week as we sat down to talk to activist, author and historian, Sarah Schulman. Sarah was a member of Act Up in 80s and 90s New York which she has documented in her new book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. The book is a 2021 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and would make an excellent gift this festive season ; ). You can also ask about it at your local library. We are also delighted to be joined by co-founder of Act Up Dublin, Noel Donnellon who shared stories of early HIV and AIDS activism in Ireland as well as the need for greater resources dedicated to PrEP. Thanks once again to our V.I.P continuity announcer Ms. Anne Doyle for gracing us with her voice and thank you for listening. Please support the Poz Vibe Podcast by subscribing wherever you listen and leave a pozitive review plus five stars. Plus, don't forget to follow us on Insta and Twitter for all the latest pozitive news. And if you really want to support us - buy our merch! Until next Friday! Veda Lady and Robbie Lawlor. POZ VIBE INFORMATION STATION Watch the trailer for the film United in Anger here. For more info on U=U, click here. Series 2 of Poz Vibe Podcast is gratefully sponsored by Dublin Pride. We thank them for their ongoing support and helping us keep our ring lights on. Poz Vibe Podcast is a Veda and Robbie Lawlor production, produced by Esther O'Moore Donohoe. Artwork, social media assets and stunning merch are all created by the fragrant and talented Lavender The Queen.
In May, writer and activist Sarah Schulman published Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, to widespread acclaim. In a https://jewishcurrents.org/what-the-record-doesnt-show (review) for the Fall issue of Jewish Currents, Vicky Osterweil argued that the book, despite offering invaluable insight into the history of AIDS activism, is marred by structural elisions—especially of trans people—and is ultimately hagiographic rather than appropriately critical of the movement it chronicles. While Schulman's https://www.gawker.com/media/sarah-schulman-conflict-is-sometimes-abuse-actually (response) to the review provoked a controversy, Osterweil's critique also ignited a discussion about the book itself, sometimes tied to broader disagreements about the theory and practice of both queer history and movement strategy. In a https://jewishcurrents.org/letters/on-what-the-record-doesnt-show (letter to the editor), writer and organizer Kay Gabriel contested Osterweil's assessment of the book, arguing that it stands as a sober account of what took place. In this episode, Culture Editor Ari M. Brostoff convenes a discussion between Osterweil and Gabriel about Let the Record Show, the dangers of nostalgia, and the challenges of reckoning with our political forebears. Books, Articles, Talks, and Projects Mentioned: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman “https://jewishcurrents.org/what-the-record-doesnt-show (What the Record Doesn't Show)” by Vicky Osterweil https://jewishcurrents.org/letters/on-what-the-record-doesnt-show (Letter on “What the Record Doesn't Show”) by Kay Gabriel https://actuporalhistory.org/ (ACT UP Oral History Project) “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINM1fB8bm4 (Being Street: The Trans Woman of Color as Evidence)” by Jules Gill-Peterson “https://www.nat.org.uk/blog/trans-awareness-week-celebrating-role-trans-people-fight-against-hiv (Celebrating the Role of Trans People in the Fight Against HIV)” by Michelle Ross https://partybottom.tumblr.com/post/133388562948/so-ive-been-diagnosed-with-hiv-around-2-3-years (Untitled blog post) by Bryn Kelly “https://brynkelly-blog.tumblr.com/post/20162901452/diving-into-the-wreck (Diving into the Wreck)” by Bryn Kelly Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”
This episode of Audio QT is a replay of an interview that Karma Chávez conducted with Sarah Schulman on 89.9 FM WORT Madison’s program “A Public Affair.” In it, Chávez and Schulman discuss Schulman’s recent book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 published in May by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. […]
Introducing the Black American with a flair for fashion who inspired a new kind of Gay activism in Montreal. Blane Charles had already made a name for himself in ACT UP New York by the time he attended the 1989 International AIDS Conference in Montreal. Blane stayed in the city for a few years, co-founded ACT UP MTL with queer human rights legend Michael Hendricks and co-created the World Ball For UNITY. The ‘World Ball' - like ‘Sex Garage' - helped build bridges and allies within Montreal's fractured LGBTQ2S community. This episode showcases a fierce, Black, New York queen who's spirit sparked a revolution for Quebec Queer rights.
It's been 17 months since the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed our lives. It has been difficult, but we have found some outlets helped us reflect on, and even escape, our current reality. On this episode with guest host Jacinth Jones, you'll hear from Urban staff about the books, miniseries and podcasts that have been getting them through since March 2020. Related Links: WandaVision, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Vanishing Half, The Kite Runner, The Atomic Habits, A Gentleman in Moscow, Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, Maintenance Phase, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987 to 1993
Sarah Schulman is one of the most influential and important queer writers and thinkers in the world. Writing and creating across multiple forms, from novels to non-fiction books, plays to screenwriting, her clarity of thought and depth of research illuminates both the causes and the effects of the often under-interrogated systems that influence our lives, from familial homophobia to urban gentrification. Her latest book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987-1993, is a huge piece of work and an essential piece of documentary, memoir, oral history, and journalism that examines the incredible successes of ACT UP during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York. The book has been lauded in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times has called it "a masterpiece". In this episode, we talk about her career, her new book, and what the pandemic revealed about the future of cities.
We hope this podcast finds you well! On today's episode we talk about the sharing economy's attempt to commodify accessibility, Tim Berners Lee selling out the world (wide web), the Lesbian Avengers re-avenging themselves against corporate greed, and we apply for barista positions at Bumble's brick and mortar cafe. Wish. Us. Luck. Shout out to Sarah Schulman, author of (most recently) Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, for her article on design and protest: "When Protest Movements Became Brands" which we encourage you to check out here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/t-magazine/1980s-protest-movements.html In this episode, we also give shout outs to some of our recent faves—including Zine Co-Op HK (@zine_coop on instagram) and the Scott Summers, cartographer-graphic designer of Sonoma's Mountain cemetery walking tour (https://sonomaoverlooktrail.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/2.jpg). Follow us on Instagram at @40000000000000dpi and visit our website at designfreaks.cafe for more episodes! See you in a couple weeks! —Helen + Justin
In conversation with Jason Villemez, editor of the Philadelphia Gay News A decades-long activist for LGBTQ+ rights and women's empowerment, Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty novels, nonfiction books, screenplays, and stage plays. Her other work has appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker and The New York Times. Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the College of Staten Island, a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities, and the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival. Schulman has also earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Based on more than 200 interviews, Let the Record Show explores the widespread impact of ACT UP, the diverse community AIDS activist group. Books available through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 6/29/2021)
In this segment of The Reality Dysfunction, Juan Carlos Vega and Alex Lozada take over the mic to talk with Memory Activist, Julián de Mayo about his incredible work documenting the AIDS crisis in the late 80s and early 90s, and specifically the work and stories of the Latina/o Caucus of ACT-UP New York. Julián explains the history of a not so inclusive movement and the efforts to record what has been mostly until now a forgotten chapter of the fight against AIDS. ACT-UP stands for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and in order to have Spanish-speaking, Latinx, Latin American, trans, and other non-white voices, the ACT-UP Latina/o Caucus of New York emerged. We explore the relevance and importance that organizing and personal narratives from over 40 years ago bring to not just the current and persistent AIDS crisis among people of color in inner cities across the country but to the discussion on how to reduce health disparities among Latinx and other vulnerable populations. Related Resources & Articles: [ES]tatus: the Latino/a Caucus of ACT UP New York Exhibit video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RnPIKGs5o&ab_channel=JuliandeMayo Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s: https://nacla.org/article/latinos-act-transnational-aids-activism-1990s Article with photos: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/silenciomuerte-an-interview-with-julian-de-mayo-on-the-legacy-of-act-ups-latina/o-caucus Conversation between Latina/o Caucus member Alfredo Gonzalez and Dr. Jorge Pérez Ávila on Cuba's HIV sanatoriums for NACLA: https://nacla.org/news/2017/11/29/cuba%E2%80%99s-hiv-sanatoriums-prisons-or-public-health-tool Julián's Soundcloud with some interviews: https://soundcloud.com/julian-de-mayo For more information, contact: demayo.j@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter: @j_deMayo
How can we write the history of AIDS activism so that all stories are equally important? In this episode of the History Workshop podcast, Sarah Schulman discusses how she navigated that challenge in her new book Let The Record Show: a Political History of ACT-UP New York.
Tuesday on Political Rewind: Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, a massive mobilization began across the world. Public health officials released safety guidelines and news organizations ran thorough coverage. But when HIV/AIDS was first identified almost 40 years ago, the response was tragically different. President Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge the disease, public health agencies looked the other way and those infected with the stigmatized disease were shunned by their families and communities. From that atmosphere of fear and rejection, ACT UP was born. It was a loose confederation of activists determined to force the country to look the virus in the eye. On today's show, we were joined by Sarah Schulman, author of a new book on the remarkable success of ACT UP in changing the trajectory of a deadly disease. Panelists: Sarah Schulman — Author, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 Tamar Hallerman — Senior Reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A new book chronicles the history of the ACT UP activist movement in the fight against AIDS in New York City. Author Sarah Schulman joins us to discuss this history, recounted in her new book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.
Sarah Schulman's work — as a nonfiction writer, novelist, activist, playwright and filmmaker — confronts the very thing most people try to avoid: conflict. Schulman, far from running from it, believes we need more of it.This was true in Schulman's 2016 book, “Conflict Is Not Abuse,” which argues that people often mislabel conflict as abuse without recognizing the power that they have to potentially abuse others. Viewing oneself as a victim can be one way to earn compassion. But powerful groups often use their perceived victimhood as an excuse to harm those who are more vulnerable. And more individually, people often don't see when they have power, and they often fear or dodge the work of repair. It's a challenging and prescient book, with a deep faith in the healing power of not just communication, but of collision.Schulman's latest book, “Let the Record Show,” is a history of ACT UP New York, the direct-action group that reshaped AIDS activism in the late '80s and early '90s. It's a book about necessary conflicts: between the AIDS community and the U.S. government, and between queer people and a widely homophobic society. But it's also about conflict among people who generally agree with one another and are working toward a common goal. Schulman calls the book “a political history,” but it's also a work of political theory: a proposal for how social movements can become more effective by embracing dissensus rather than striving for consensus.We began this conversation discussing ACT UP, conflict and Schulman's theory of political change. But we also ended up discussing Israel and Palestine, a topic she has written widely about. And Schulman shares her thoughts on contemporary L.G.B.T.Q. politics and what she thinks has been lost as queer culture has become more mainstream.Mentioned in this episode: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah SchulmanRecommendations: Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt BrimVanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. JonesMemorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha TretheweyYou can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein.Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld, audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.
Forty years ago this month, the CDC reported on patients with HIV/AIDS in the United States for the very first time. In the years since, LGBTQIA+ Americans have been fighting for treatment and recognition of a disease that was was understudied, under-reported, and deeply stigmatized. On this bonus episode of Up First, Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute, talks to Sarah Schulman. Schulman is the codirector of the ACT UP Oral History Project, and the author of Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.Schulman draws from nearly 200 interviews with ACT UP members to document the movement's history and explore how the group's activism transformed the way the media, the government, corporations and medical professionals talked about AIDS and provided treatment. She and Sam discuss this transformation and its relevance to social movements today.
Forty years ago this month, the CDC reported on patients with HIV/AIDS in the United States for the very first time. The disease was understudied, under-reported and deeply stigmatized. ACT UP united a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. In her new book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, Sarah Schulman draws from nearly 200 interviews with ACT UP members to document the movement's history and explore how the group's activism transformed the way the media, the government, corporations and medical professionals talked about AIDS and provided treatment. She and Sam discuss this transformation and its relevance to social movements today.We've love your feedback! If you have a few minutes, please complete this survey: npr.org/PodcastSurveyYou can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at samsanders@npr.org.
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Author Joan Silber, whose previous work Improvement won both the National Book Critic's Circle Aware and the Pen Faulkner Award, joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new novel Secrets of Happiness, a multi-vocal story that radiates out from a single family dealing with a father's intimate betrayal. He has a secret family that he told nobody about. As it moves across characters and continents, Secrets of Happiness considers the weight of love, family, and other attachments in a world where nothing is as it seems, and happiness is a fleeting experience best savored in the presence. Also, Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993, returns to recommend Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir as well as Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones.
Author Joan Silber, whose previous work Improvement won both the National Book Critic's Circle Aware and the Pen Faulkner Award, joins Eric and Kate to discuss her new novel Secrets of Happiness, a multi-vocal story that radiates out from a single family dealing with a father's intimate betrayal. He has a secret family that he told nobody about. As it moves across characters and continents, Secrets of Happiness considers the weight of love, family, and other attachments in a world where nothing is as it seems, and happiness is a fleeting experience best savored in the presence. Also, Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993, returns to recommend Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir as well as Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones.
For those who make, or might once have made, a living as artists, the pandemic and the economic depression that followed it took away two vital sources of revenue: in-person events and day jobs that sustained creative endeavors. Yet, as William Deresiewicz describes in the June issue of Harper's Magazine, all sectors of the arts economy were already vulnerable for collapse: years of declining public arts funding and education, as well as the rise of “free content,” had fundamentally destabilized the ability for expression. The ways in which COVID-19 sharpened and highlighted existing social failures harkens back to another global health crisis: the AIDS epidemic. Writer, activist, and historian Sarah Schulman's newest book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, tells the story of activists who waged some of the most effective political campaigns of the century to force politicians, the populace, and drug companies into acknowledging and addressing AIDS. An excerpt of Let the Record Show also appears in the June issue. In this episode of the podcast, web editor Violet Lucca moderates a conversation between Sarah Schulman and William Deresiewicz, author of The Death of the Artist, exploring links between the two crises. Among other topics, they discuss the aesthetic and societal costs of confining art making to the margins of the workday, the new challenges of organizing against Big Tech, and the value of artists to social movements. Read Deresiewicz's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/stages-of-grief-what-the-pandemic-has-done-to-the-arts/ Read the excerpt of Schulman's book: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/blood-ties-sarah-schulman-let-the-record-show/ This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins.
In this week’s episode, Kendra, Jaclyn, and the rest of the Reading Women team share books by or about older women. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Get $10 off StoryWorth by going to storyworth.com/readingwomen. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned List of Reading Women’s Episodes Interview with Vickie Laveau-Harvie Books Mentioned The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl Crime & Punctuation by Kaitlynn Dunnett Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng The Erratics by Vickie Laveau-Harvie Currently Reading Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Sarah Schulman joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987-1993. A longtime activist, Sarah was a participant in the history she writes about. Back in 1987 Sarah joined The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, known as ACT UP, in New York City. Let the Record Show is a focused, exceedingly thorough look at ACT UP's organizational tactics, its diverse range of members and intersecting causes, and its profound impact in fighting for access to treatment and more national attention for people with AIDS at a time when the US government was barely addressing the crisis. The book builds on over 200 oral histories Sarah and her collaborator and fellow ACT-Upper Jim Hubbard conducted with former members. In an ecstatic review, the New York Times wrote that "it's not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician's bible." Also, Helen Oyeyemi, author of Peaces, returns to recommend James Robertson's To Be Continued, or, Conversations with a Toad.
Writer Sarah Schulman joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987-1993. A longtime activist, Sarah was a participant in the history she writes about. Back in 1987 Sarah joined The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, known as ACT UP, in New York City. Let the Record Show is a focused, exceedingly thorough look at ACT UP’s organizational tactics, its diverse range of members and intersecting causes, and its profound impact in fighting for access to treatment and more national attention for people with AIDS at a time when the US government was barely addressing the crisis. The book builds on over 200 oral histories Sarah and her collaborator and fellow ACT-Upper Jim Hubbard conducted with former members. In an ecstatic review, the New York Times wrote that "it’s not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician’s bible." Also, Helen Oyeyemi, author of Peaces, returns to recommend James Robertson's To Be Continued, or, Conversations with a Toad.
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are joined by Sarah Schulman, whose new book Let the Record Show sets out to correct inaccurate representations of ACT UP New York, its tactics, and its philosophy of direct action in response to the AIDS epidemic. Then they discuss three collections of photographs of LGBTQ people. Who are they for, and will they be seen by the people who need them most? Items discussed on the show: "How to Be a Queer Person in the World Post-Quarantine," by Naveen Kumar The section of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass that begins, "I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough.” Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-93, by Sarah Schulman Sarah’s appearance on the June 10, 2020, episode of Outward, “ACT UP and Larry Kramer's Legacy” The ACT UP Oral History Project Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America, by IO Tillett Wright Queer Love in Color, by Jamal Jordan Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, by JEB (Joan E. Biren) Gay Agenda Bryan: Taylor Mac’s "Whitman in the Woods" Christina: Call My Agent Rumaan: Halston This podcast was produced by Margaret Kelley. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are joined by Sarah Schulman, whose new book Let the Record Show sets out to correct inaccurate representations of ACT UP New York, its tactics, and its philosophy of direct action in response to the AIDS epidemic. Then they discuss three collections of photographs of LGBTQ people. Who are they for, and will they be seen by the people who need them most? Items discussed on the show: "How to Be a Queer Person in the World Post-Quarantine," by Naveen Kumar The section of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass that begins, "I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough.” Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-93, by Sarah Schulman Sarah’s appearance on the June 10, 2020, episode of Outward, “ACT UP and Larry Kramer's Legacy” The ACT UP Oral History Project Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America, by IO Tillett Wright Queer Love in Color, by Jamal Jordan Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, by JEB (Joan E. Biren) Gay Agenda Bryan: Taylor Mac’s "Whitman in the Woods" Christina: Call My Agent Rumaan: Halston This podcast was produced by Margaret Kelley. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are joined by Sarah Schulman, whose new book Let the Record Show sets out to correct inaccurate representations of ACT UP New York, its tactics, and its philosophy of direct action in response to the AIDS epidemic. Then they discuss three collections of photographs of LGBTQ people. Who are they for, and will they be seen by the people who need them most? Items discussed on the show: "How to Be a Queer Person in the World Post-Quarantine," by Naveen Kumar The section of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass that begins, "I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough.” Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-93, by Sarah Schulman Sarah’s appearance on the June 10, 2020, episode of Outward, “ACT UP and Larry Kramer's Legacy” The ACT UP Oral History Project Self Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America, by IO Tillett Wright Queer Love in Color, by Jamal Jordan Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, by JEB (Joan E. Biren) Gay Agenda Bryan: Taylor Mac’s "Whitman in the Woods" Christina: Call My Agent Rumaan: Halston This podcast was produced by Margaret Kelley. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ACT UP changed the world. Sarah Schulman's new book explains how. Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York (out on May 18th) is an utterly crucial guidebook for effective activism. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. For more info, go to LGBTQpodcast.com
Books are getting us through a tough year. Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge talks about what she's been reading. Tressie and Roxane respond in kind. Plus, their reaction to the Derek Chauvin verdict, and book recommendations from listeners. Mentions: Libertie by Kaitlyn Greennidge The Cutting Season by Attica Locke The Age of Innocence by Eidith Wharton Afterparties by Anthony So Let the record show: A Political History of ACT UP New York by Sarah Schulman Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Control Negro- Jocelyn Nicole Johnson The Prophets by Roberts Jones Jr. Of Women and Salt- Gabriela Garcia Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler Hear To Slay theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura. Curtis Fox is the senior producer. Sarah Wyman and Catherine Fenollosa are the producers. Production help from Lauren Garcia and Kaityln Adams. Ali McPherson and Isoke Samuel are the interns. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
On this week's episode of LGBTQ Nation, Alex discusses the pandemic's impact on queer and trans people. Alex talks with research nurse, Juanita Erb, about the pandemic's disproportionate impact on marginalized communities. Alex also speaks with Mathew Rodriguez, an editor at thebody.com, and Jason Rosenberg, an Act Up New York member, about the parallels made between the Covid pandemic and the AIDS epidemic. ---- Listen to LGBTQ Nation Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus ---- Find more LGBTQ news stories at https://www.lgbtqnation.com/ ---- FOLLOW OUR PANELISTS: Alex Berg: Instagram & Twitter- @itsalexberg Mathew Rodriguez: Instagram- @mathewkrodriguez Twitter- @mathewrodriguez Jason Rosenberg: Instagram & Twitter- @mynameisjro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
IMRU SHOW 200629: PRIDE OUT LOUD (Episode 3 The Plague Years) - AIDS Field Reports (Pacifica & IMRU) + Dr. Michael Gottleib (Discovered HIV, co-founded AmFar) + Richard Berkowitz (Author, “Stayin’ Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex") + Cleve Jones (conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt) + Sean Strub (founded POZ magazine, ACT UP New York activist, Author of "Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival") + David France (documentarian, "How to Survive a Plague") + Bob Dallmeyer (Activist, Poet). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message
Le pinkwashing est une stratégie politique et commerciale, consistant pour un Etat ou une entreprise à se montrer proche des personnes LGBT (lesbiennes, gays, bisexuelles et trans). Le pinkwashing donne une image moderne et progressiste, mais cache des pratiques pas toujours respectueuses des minorités.En Français, on pourrait traduire “pinkwashing” par “repeindre en rose”. Ce terme est inventé au début des années 2000 pour dénoncer les entreprises qui utilisent les campagnes contre le cancer du sein pour se donner une bonne image. Mais très vite, on parle aussi de “pinkwashing” pour critiquer les campagnes de communication de certaines marques ou institutions qui tentent de se donner une image gayfriendly, c’est-à-dire proche des personnes homosexuelles.L’un des cas de pinkwashing les plus critiqué est celui d’Israël. page Le journaliste Jean Stern explique dans son livre “Mirage gay à Tel Aviv” que le gouvernement israélien a consciemment déployé une campagne de communication en faveur des personnes LGBTQ à partir de 2008, sous l’impulsion de la ministre des affaires étrangères Tzipi Livni, dans le but d’attirer les homosexuels étrangers à Tel-Aviv.On pourrait y voir un progrès, mais des universitaires et des associations critiquent le double-discours qui peut se cacher derrière le pinkwashing. Dans le cas d’Israël par exemple, l’homophobie reste très marquée en dehors de Tel-Aviv. Selon Jean Stern, près de la moitié des Israélien considèrent l’homosexualité comme une maladie. Et au-delà des question de sexualité, le pinkwashing permet à Israël de se donner une image progressiste à l’international, alors que l’Etat est constamment pointé du doigt pour sa politique dans les territoires palestiniens.Les marques aussi ont de plus en plus recours au pinkwashing. Au moment du mois des fiertés, les sacs bleus d’Ikea deviennent arc-en-ciel, Google célèbre les émeutes de Stonewall et Barilla montre des couples lesbiens sur ses paquets de pâtes. En 2018, Act-Up New York dénonce l’utilisation du triangle rose par Nike. Ce symbole de la déportation des homosexuels par les nazis, est adopté par les activistes pro-gay et anti-Sida depuis les années 70. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Peter Staley was diagnosed with AIDS-related complex in 1985 while working as a bond trader at JP Morgan on Wall Street. He joined ACT UP New York shortly after its founding in 1987, and chaired its fundraising committee for three years. In 1988, he left his Wall Street job to become a full-time AIDS activist, joining ACT UP’s Treatment & Data Committee (T&D). In 1989, Staley led ACT UP’s campaign to force Burroughs Wellcome to lower the price of AZT. He organized activists to infiltrate their North Carolina headquarters and seal themselves in a third-floor office, and led a demonstration on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, disrupting trading and resulting in a price reduction of AZT three days later. In 1990, Staley was an opening plenary speaker at the VI International Conference on AIDS in San Francisco. In 1992, Staley and other members of T&D founded the Treatment Action Group (TAG), and he became its Founding Director. TAG’s first action and “art project” involved covering Senator Jesse Helms’ home with a giant condom. In 1993, TAG successfully lobbied for a radical restructuring of the management of the government’s AIDS research effort. The NIH Revitalization Act created a powerful Office of AIDS Research (OAR) to provide coordination, strategic planning, and leadership in the NIH’s AIDS research programs. In 1994, Staley was appointed by President Clinton to the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development. He was also a member of amfAR’s Board of Directors from 1991 to 2004. In 2000, Staley launched a web site called AIDSmeds.com, offering complete and easy-to-read treatment information for people living with HIV. Since then, AIDSmeds.com has become one of the most popular HIV-related sites on the Web, and it merged with POZ Magazine and POZ.com in 2006. In January, 2004, Staley launched a personal ad campaign to bring much needed attention to an epidemic of crystal meth use among gay men. Using $7,000 of his own money, he placed six phone booth kiosk ads in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York that said “Huge Sale, Buy Crystal, Get HIV Free!” Within days, the ads, along with the issues they raised, became a major news story, with coverage in The New York Times and on all three local TV stations. Two months later, New York City appropriated the first government funds anywhere in the U.S. targeting meth prevention for gay men. Other cities and states soon followed. According to ongoing CDC HIV surveillance studies, meth use among gay men in New York City fell from 14% in 2004 to 6% in 2008. In 2013, Staley was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to New York State’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force, which developed a blueprint to dramatically lower HIV infections in the state by 2020. In 2014, Staley was appointed by Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, to the search committee tasked with finding the next Director of AIDS Research at the NIH. Also in the 2014, Staley helped form a coalition of advocates for Truvada PrEP – the once-a-day pill that prevents HIV infections – that successfully pressured Gilead Sciences to liberalize its patient assistance programs, removing barriers to access for this new tool to fight the AIDS epidemic. Staley is a leading subject in the Oscar-nominated documentary, How To Survive A Plague, directed by David France. In recent years, he has lectured often at U.S. colleges, and during international exchange programs.
This week we catch up with Aldo Hernandez and Dr. Dan Berger of Iceberg Projects to talk about Art +Positive, Act Up, and the legacy for the 80s and 90s. From Iceberg Projects... Iceberg Projects is pleased to present selections from the Art+ Positive archives, curated by Dr. Daniel Berger and John Neff. The first exhibition of the group’s archive, this show is the first step in an ongoing project of research and scholarship around the materials. A June 1989 Vanity Fair profile of Mark Kostabi included this quotation from the celebrity artist: These museum curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have controlled the art world in the eighties. Now they’re all dying of AIDS, and although I think it’s sad, I know it’s for the better. Because homosexual men are not actively participating in the perpetuation of human life. That summer, Art+ Positive organized as an affinity group of ACT UP New York in protest of Kostabi’s remarks and other instances of “homophobia, AIDSphobia, and censorship in the arts.” Art+ Positive members included Dennis Davidson, Bill Dobbs, Lola Flash, Catherine Gund, Aldo Hernandez, Leon (Tracy) Mostovoy, Robin Murphy, Ray Navarro, Hunter Reynolds, Jody Rhone, Julie Tolentino and David Wojnarowicz. Collaborating artists also represented in the archive include Donna Binder, David Bradshaw, Ana De Orbegoso, Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe, Diviana Ingravallo, Zoe Leonard, Anthony Viti and Michael Wakefield. Iceberg’s exhibition will include artworks and a rotating display of documents, ephemera and protest signage from this collective of artists practicing at the intersection of the HIV / AIDS crisis and the Culture Wars of the Bush era. A workstation in the gallery will be used in cataloging and digitizing the archive during the run of the show. Equipped, created by Ray Navarro with assistance from Zoe Leonard, will be among the works exhibited. An image-text triptych in artist-designed frames, Equipped slyly mobilizes references to queer sex, AIDS medicine, and censored public speech. It was included in the 1990 PS 122 exhibition An Army of Lovers: Combatting AIDS, Homophobia, and Censorship, which opened on the day of Navarro’s death. The elements of a large collage installation by David Wojnarowicz, also shown in the PS 122 exhibit before being dispersed into different collections, will be brought together for display at Iceberg for the first time in 25 years.
Peter Staley has been a long-term AIDS and gay rights activist, first as a member of ACT UP New York, then as the founding director of TAG, the Treatment Action Group. He served on the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) for 13 years and then founded AIDSmeds.com, an educational website for people living with HIV. Staley is a leading subject in the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague.
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