And the process of forgetting, she says, is intimately connected to the processes of gentrification that have captured our cities and our minds in the last three decades. Yet through her work on ACT UP, Schulman has documented not just the legacy of Aids activism and alternative queer culture but their gradual erasure. New York City author and activist Sarah Schulman has returned many times to the lessons and provocations of this radically decentralised, unapologetically confrontational direct action group, which was founded in 1987 with one goal: to end the Aids crisis. The Aids Coalition To Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP, is one of the most effective social movements in American history.
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