Writing the History of AIDS Activism

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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.

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History Workshop Podcast · Writing the History of AIDS Activism: Sarah Schulman & Let The Record Show

Produced by Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton

Marybeth Hamilton is an editor of History Workshop Journal and Coordinating Editor of History Workshop. She is the author of In Search of the Blues and When I’m Bad, I’m Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment, and she has written and presented several features for BBC Radio. She is currently writing a cultural history of Valerie Solanas’s 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol.

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman is a writer, historian and academic. She is Distinguished Professor the Humanities at College of State Island and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. With Jim Hubbard, she co-founded MIX, New York’s experimental LGBT film festival and co-directs the ACT-UP Oral History Project. She has published ten novels, numerous plays and several non-fictions works covering issues of sexuality, gender and politics. Let the Record Show is her twentieth book.

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