Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 /

"Based on more than two hundred 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schulman, Sarah, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Political foundations. Change and power. Introduction : how change is made
  • Mechanisms of power : Puerto Ricans in ACT UP
  • The first treatment activists
  • The dynamics of effective action. Choosing the right target : seize control of the FDA
  • Collective leadership : stop the church
  • Paths of leadership. Inspiration and influence : Larry Kramer, Maxine Wolfe, Mark Harrington
  • Treatment and data #2 : citizen scientists
  • Changing the definition : women don't get AIDS, we just die from it - Radical resistance and acceptance. Mother and son : the death of Ray Navarro, the vision of Patricia Navarro
  • Harm reduction as a value, an ideal, a way of life and death : ACT UP's campaign for needle exchange
  • Art in the service of change. Art making as creation and expression of community. The artistic life of resistance ; strategic images : photography, video, and film - Creating the world you need to survive. Activism coheres values and creates counterculture. Getting and creating media
  • Community Research Initiative, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and the Battle over AZT
  • ACT UP and the Haitian Underground Railroad
  • Lawyers for the people
  • The culture and subculture of civil disobedience - Money, poverty, and the material reality of AIDS. Insurance equals access, and without access there is no treatment
  • How the ACT UP housing committee became housing works, housing for homeless people with AIDS
  • YELL : the evolution of queer youth politics
  • Funding ACT UP's campaigns - Desperation. Division. Storm the NIH action at the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1990
  • The dinner : December 1, 1990
  • Day of desperation : January 23, 1991
  • Are women "vectors of infection," or people with AIDS? : Clinical Trial 076, April 1991
  • AIDS hysteria : the case of Derek Link
  • The split : January 1992 - Living and dying the mass death experience. Treatment and data #3
  • Ashes action : October 5, 1992
  • Political funerals
  • Conclusion : the myth of resilience and the enduring relationship of AIDS
  • A personal conclusion
  • Appendix 1. ACT UP and the FBI
  • Appendix 2. Tell it to ACT UP
  • ACT UP New York time line
  • ACT UP oral history interviews.