UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP STUDY GUIDE
COLLECTED RESOURCES
Books
Castiglia, Chrisotpher and Christopher Reed. If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2012)
Crimp, Douglas. AIDS Demo Graphics. Seattle: Bay Press, 1990.
Epstein, Steven. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1996.
Nichols, Bill. Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Molesworth, Helen, ed. This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s. (2012)
Schulman, Sarah:
Novels:
The Child. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.
People in Trouble. New York: Plume, 1990.
Rat Bohemia. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995.
Nonfiction:
My American History: Gay and Lesbian Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Staggenborg, Suzanne. Social Movements, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Women, AIDS, and Activism. By the ACT UP/NY Women and AIDS Book Group. Boston: South End Press, 1990.
Films
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Dir. Jim Hubbard. MIX, 2012. DVD.
Voices from the Front. Testing the Limits (1991)
Historical Documents
ACT UP Treatment and Data Committee Teach-In Document
Gran Fury, “Good Luck…Miss You.”
Gran Fury, “Gran Fury Talks to Douglas Crimp.” Artforum (April 2003)
Hubbard, Jim. “A Report on the Archiving of Film and Video Work by Makers with AIDS.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” (1963)
Lesbian Avengers Action Outline
Interviews and Oral Histories
Moises Agosto oral history
Jim Eigo oral history
Joy Episalla oral history
Avram Finkelstein tells the story of the creation of the “Silence = Death” poster
Garance Franke-Ruta oral history
Jim Hubbard interview with Adam Baran for keepthelightsonfilm.com
Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman Q&A at Columbia University Center for Oral History
Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman interview with Alexandra Juhasz, DIVA TV
Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman interview with Morgan Goode for prettyqueer.com
David Kirschenbaum oral history
Iris Long oral history
Sarah Schulman interview with Elvira Kurt for Xtra! Canada’s Gay and Lesbian News
Maxine Wolfe interview with Laraine Sommella from Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance. Seattle: Bay Press, 1997.
Websites
AIDS Clinical Trials Group Network
American Medical Association: Informed Consent
The Antiwar Movement in the U.S.
“Black Power Movement.” Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
“Civil Rights.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
“Gay Liberation.” OutHistory.org
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
“Women’s Movement.” Duke University Women’s Liberation Movement On-line Archive
STUDY GUIDE HOME
UNIT 1: HISTORICIZING ACT UP
UNIT 1: PROJECTS AND EXERCISES
UNIT 2: THE STRUCTURE OF ACT UP
UNIT 2: PROJECTS AND EXERCISES
UNIT 3: ACT UP IN THE STREETS
UNIT 3: PROJECTS AND EXERCISES
UNIT 4: THE POLITICS OF HIV/AIDS MEDICINE
UNIT 4: PROJECTS AND EXERCISES
UNIT 5: ACTIVIST ART
UNIT 5: PROJECTS AND EXERCISES