![]() ![]() Schulman mines hundreds of interviews - many of which she recorded for the online ACT UP Oral History Project - to expand on this assertion in her mesmerizing, messy, multi-vocal celebration of groups working together and, at times, at cross purposes to address the desperate needs of people with AIDS (PWAs) in the harrowing first years of the epidemic. In reality, political change has always come from the strategic and zanily creative work of coalitions. ![]() At stake, she explains, is the misbelief that “heroic individuals” bring about change in America. How do you tell the story of a movement without simply chronicling the lives of a few supposed leaders of that movement? Sarah Schulman tackles this question head-on in Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. ![]()
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