Let the Record Show - A Political History of ACT UP, New York, 1987-1993 Book (Paperback)
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RELEASE DATE - 28 JUNE 2022
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world.
Armed with rancour, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all.
They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, D.C., and started needle exchange programmes in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponised art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled - and beat - The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. 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.
Sarah Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigour and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a liveable future for generations of people across the world.
"Let the Record Show is profoundly moving, as most [AIDS histories] are, but also does the important work of reasserting the place of women and people of colour in the history of Act Up."
Megan Nolan, The Guardian
"Remarkable . . . [Schulman's] book is made up of testimony, exposition and analysis, not blended but artfully layered . . . [a] rich and amazing book."
Adam Mars-Jones, London Review of Books
"A masterful work twenty years in the making . . . Schulman holds a unique position to chronicle this critical history and connect it with our own chaotic moment."
Lauren LeBlanc, Observer
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages |
752 |
| ISBN |
9781250849120 |
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