'And when everyone was committed to transformation, we all moved forward' Sarah Schulman.
Sunday November 21st 2021 at The Cinema Museum - 'UPRISING - Let the Record Show - A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 launch with Sarah Schulman and ACT UP London, Positively UK and friends' - facebook event page here. All general and press enquiries to dan888glass@gmail.com. The Cinema Museum is wheelchair accessible.
Join us for a United in Anger screening and UK launch reading of Let the Record Show along with a World Cafe style event on cabaret tables where everyone gets to mass-mingle and discuss specific topics / action plans to continue the struggle for healthcare for all then party!
All profit goes to Pos UK Hardship Fund and ICEBREAKERS - 'We work towards a Uganda of total justice devoid of discrimination based on sexual orientation and free of HIV/AIDS and its disastrous effects'
We are hyped to welcome Sarah Schulman back to London for a 2-day event on coalition-building and the power of grassroots radical organizing based on her most recent book. The two events will explore how to harness the power of coalition politics, what makes grassroots radical organizing work, and how different people with different circumstances and resistances can elevate each other and save each other’s lives.
The events will be based on Sarah’s latest book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York (2020) which is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted over 18 years. Rejecting the whitening of AIDS history, and examining the movements' mistakes as well as victories, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration- and long-overdue reassessment- of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts and achievements, and ultimate fracture. The book aims to reinstate women and people of colour ‘back at the heart of history’ (The Guardian) and reconfigure the way we tell history away from the ‘heroic individual’ towards the community.
The evening includes a special exhibition with rare pictures and artefacts from Greg Ellis at Ward 5b, Guy Burch and Gordon Rainsford
Credit - Greg Ellis / Outsavvy cover pic - Gordon Rainsford.
In the midst of a global pandemic, it is of paramount importance that continue to acknowledge not only how outbreaks disproportionately impact what Steven Thrasher terms, “the viral underclass - a class of people who are systematically put in harm’s way” but also the alternative forms of life and community that can emerge in the midst of a deadly virus. The two events aim to stimulate new approaches and attitudes to working together effectively for change and teach us more about the practices of resistance and alternative forms of life that can emerge from times of crisis.
Please also join us on Monday 22nd November 2021, 12pm – 1pm - Reading and discussion at University of Westminster, Little Titchfield Street, London, W1W 7UW.
Supported by - The John Mordaunt Trust, Positively UK, IBase, 56 Dean Street, Catwalk for Power, ICEBREAKERS, Centre for the Study of Democracy - University of Westminster, LGBT+ Switchboard, Oxford Queer Intersections. Books on sale by Housmans bookshop. Big love to Miss Bad Child for the poster design!