With filmmaker Jim Hubbard, Schulman is responsible for the ACT UP Oral History Project and United in Anger, a 2012 documentary about the group. The epidemic emptied whole neighborhoods, and the shifting social and economic tides washed away any awareness of the virus for the city’s new inhabitants. Her book Gentrification of the Mind (2012) detailed how AIDS changed the landscape of New York. Schulman has dedicated much of her life to recording ACT UP’s impact. It is meticulously, thoughtfully, and lovingly compiled. Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 documents one of the most daring and important activist organizations in US history. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 by Sarah Schulman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 736 pages, $40 hardcover.
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