Letters and Politics

ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993

Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more than twenty books including her latest, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.  She is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.