A Political History of ACT UP/NY (Sarah Schulman)

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Published: 10 September 2021

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP/New York 1987-1993

Interview with Sarah Schulman, author of this brilliant, 700+-page analytical book

"Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism. Based on more than 200 interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.

Sarah moves beyond narratives reducing ACT UP’s impact to the simplistic narrative that it sped up the development and availability of life-extending drugs for HIV and AIDS, which it did do, but what she highlights are ACT UP's tremendous achievements in many realms of social and economic benefits, scientific research, prevention, and human rights which kept many people alive to later benefit from the drugs.

ACT UP's story has inspired thousands of people to continue activism around other issues mixing new and old methods of organizing. Tune in to hear more about this amazing history of a group that continues to this day.

No Ordinary Man; Part 2 of Ericka Huggins; & The Impact of the Pandemic on Queer Organizing in the Caribbean

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Published: 30 August 2021

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Kenita Placide: The Impact of the Pandemic on Queer Organizing in the Caribbean

Activist Kenita Placide describes recent achievements of LGBTIQ legal rights in the Caribbean region and reviews the economic and social impact of Covid on the lives of Queer people there. 

Part 2 - Queer Black Panther Ericka Huggins Speaks Out

In this rebroadcast of the June 2020 interview with Out-FM, Ericka Huggins discusses her experiences as a Panther, including the FBI-instigated assassination of her husband John Huggins Jr. and their comrade Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter. both in their 20s; her 2+ years as a political prisoner (including months in solitary confinement); and the Panthers’ public support for the then-new Lesbian and Gay Liberation movement, and reflects on her hopes for the current-day uprising against racist police murders. This is part of our Queerly Defiant series.