The Mary Tefft White Cultural Center Lecture Series presents novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian, Sarah Schulman in conversation with Roger Williams University's Dr. Jason Jacobs, Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at 7pm. This event is fully virtual, click here to register.
Sarah Schulman is a playwright, novelist and journalist. Her plays include Carson McCullers (2002) and Manic Flight Reaction (2005). She has written the novels The Child (2007), Shimmer (1998), Rat Bohemia (1995), Empathy (1992), People in Trouble (1990), After Delores (1988), Girls, Visions and Everything (1986), and The Sophie Horowitz Story (1984). Her nonfiction work includes STAGESTRUCK: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998) and My American History: Gay and Lesbian Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (1994). She is one of the two coordinators of the ACT UP Oral History Project and has received awards from the Guggenheim for Playwriting, the Fulbright for Judaic Studies, in addition to two American Library Association Book Awards (fiction and nonfiction) and three New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowships. She was also a Finalist for the Prix de Rome.
Boston Review: When Queers Fought the State and Won
GPB: Political Rewind: Author Sarah Schulman On The Political History Of ACT UP And The AIDS Crisis
Electric Lit: The Unvarnished Story Behind the Most Controversial Group in AIDS Activism
The Ezra Klein Show: Sarah Schulman's Radical Approach to Conflict, Communication and Change
KPFA: ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993
The New Republic: Branding ACT UP
The New Yorker: How ACT UP Changed America
New York Times: In 'Let the Record Show,' Sarah Schulman Erects a Monument to the AIDS Movement
New York Times: A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis
The Paris Review: The Voice of ACT UP Culture
The Providencetown Independent: Sarah Schulman's Mesmerizing, Messy History of ACT UP
Slate: The One Lesson Today's Activists Need to Learn From ACT UP