LGBTQ activist, author, and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman is back to London for a 2-day to launch her latest book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York (2020).  It’s the result which is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted over 18 years and is a  long-overdue reassessment- of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts and achievements, and ultimate fracture.

Schulman’s book aims to reinstate women and people of color‘ back at the heart of history and reconfigure the way we tell history away from the ‘heroic individual’ towards the community.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 AT 12 PM EST

The Cinema Museum

The event will also include  United in Anger screening a special exhibition with rare pictures and artifacts from Greg Ellis at Ward 5b,  Guy Burch  and Gordon Rainsford . As well as a performance from the one and only Crystal Rasmussen.

PLUS on Monday 22nd November 2021, 12pm – 1pm – Reading and discussion at University of Westminster, Little Titchfield Street,  London, W1W 7UW – Sign up here ‘Let the Record Show’: Book Reading + Q&A with Sarah Schulman’.