![]() The direct-action AIDS movement was all that and more, and Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show provides a rich, incisive, and multivalent history of ACT UP New York, the largest, best-funded, and most influential chapter at the center of the movement.ĪCT UP changed the course of the AIDS pandemic and thereby changed history. They enact projects of collaborative world-building that offer alternative ways of thinking, feeling, relating, and being. In that manner and through their doings more generally, movements not only fight the power and sometimes win but also unravel taken-for-granted knowledges, asserting that the way things are is not how they should or must be. Movements thereby counter a world that continually entices us toward individual striving as both the path to success and the solution to one's problems. ![]() ![]() One of the many marvelous things about social movements is how people, composing themselves into collectivities, come to depend on one another as they fight for social change. ![]()
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