the world very much needs, and is not ready for, @sarahschulman3 LET THE RECORD SHOW. Absolutely essential reading for people who wish to organize and those trying to understand how movements happen. Like, in a smarter world, every journalist would have to read this

i can only read a few pages a night bc of this baby but all are underlined already.

one big takeaway: the women and POC in ACTUP did not waste time trying to convince white members to be antiracist. Instead, they focused on what financial, social and institutional resources they could wield from being in solidarity with white organizers

it's such a nuanced distinction and such a shift in thinking about where power is located and all of that. And it plays out, beautifully, in the oral histories. Just wonderful scholarship and writing.

You could do a whole semester around this book.

also a great reminder that all of these media institutions have consistently, always, failed to report on these huge crises. The misreporting and indifference of NYtimes, WaPo, Wall Street Journal etc is staggering

oh and one final point that i will be thinking about all day from LET THE RECORD SHOW--that AIDS decimated the creative industries--theater, dance, particularly--and yet depictions of the crisis that centered people with aids and not straight onlookers were nearly non-existent...

what does this say about "representation"? what does this say about limits of the imagination, self censorship, who art is made for, what art can do