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A revelatory portrait of McCarthy-era Manhattan—back in print! It
is 1948 in Manhattan. Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky pays her
dues in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with
sixteen other girls whose eyes are on the back of the chair in
front of them, the next step up the ladder. At the rival paper
across town, gossip columnist Austin Van Cleeve rules New York and
Washington with his venomous pen. In the Village, Columbia
University graduate Cal Byfield is stuck flipping burgers to
support his dream of a Negro theater on Broadway. Against the
backdrop of post–World War II New York City and under the growing
shadow of the Red Scare, these three indelible characters collide
with one another amidst the larger drama of the historical moment.
In a fresh re-interpretation of the McCarthy era, Sarah Schulman
reframes our understanding of the “blacklist” to show how
racial and sexual discrimination create their own ongoing
exclusions and how the politics of treachery affect the most
intimate relationships. First published in 1998, Shimmer draws
parallels between the McCarthy era and contemporary American life
and upends the tropes of film noir, pulp fiction, and set pieces of
midcentury America by positioning a Black man and a queer Jewish
woman as emblematic Americans. In a story set before the advent of
the collective revolutionary movements of the 1960s, Cal and Sylvia
learn the hard way that the American Dream was not available to
them. This new edition of Shimmer includes a postscript by the
author.
Sarah Schulman's writing is bold, provocative, and refreshingly
unrepentant. First published in 1994, My American History: Lesbian
and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years combines critical
commentary with a rich and varied collection of news articles,
letters, interviews, and reports in which the author traces the
development of lesbian and gay politics in the U.S. In her coverage
of many tireless campaigns of activism and resistance, Sarah
Schulman documents a powerful political history that most people -
gay or straight - never knew happened. In her Preface to this
second edition, Urvashi Vaid argues for the continued relevance of
Schulman's writing to activism in the 21st century, particularly in
light of the resurgence of the right in American politics. Also
included is a selection of articles by Sarah Schulman for Womanews,
in their original print format, with illustrations by Alison
Bechdel. The book closes with an interview with the author,
conducted by Steven Thrasher, especially for this new edition. It
explores AIDS and homophobia during the Reagan/Bush administrations
and at the dawn of the Trump era. My American History is a
collection that gives voice to both the personal and political
struggles of feminist and lesbian and gay communities in the 1980s.
It is an important historical record that will enlighten and inform
activists, as well as academics of women's, gender and sexuality
studies, in the 21st century.
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981OCo1996), Sarah
Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap
rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost
overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and
mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East
Side and brings it to life, filling these pages with vivid memories
of her avant-garde queer friends and dramatically recreating the
early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political
insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis,
Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a
generationOCOs imagination and the consequences of that loss.
Sarah Schulman's writing is bold, provocative, and refreshingly
unrepentant. First published in 1994, My American History: Lesbian
and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years combines critical
commentary with a rich and varied collection of news articles,
letters, interviews, and reports in which the author traces the
development of lesbian and gay politics in the U.S. In her coverage
of many tireless campaigns of activism and resistance, Sarah
Schulman documents a powerful political history that most people -
gay or straight - never knew happened. In her Preface to this
second edition, Urvashi Vaid argues for the continued relevance of
Schulman's writing to activism in the 21st century, particularly in
light of the resurgence of the right in American politics. Also
included is a selection of articles by Sarah Schulman for Womanews,
in their original print format, with illustrations by Alison
Bechdel. The book closes with an interview with the author,
conducted by Steven Thrasher, especially for this new edition. It
explores AIDS and homophobia during the Reagan/Bush administrations
and at the dawn of the Trump era. My American History is a
collection that gives voice to both the personal and political
struggles of feminist and lesbian and gay communities in the 1980s.
It is an important historical record that will enlighten and inform
activists, as well as academics of women's, gender and sexuality
studies, in the 21st century.
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the
activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning
consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to
Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at
Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other artists and
academics honoring the Palestinian call for an academic and
cultural boycott of Israel. Anti-occupation activists in the United
States, Canada, Israel, and Palestine come together to help
organize an alternative solidarity visit for the American activist.
Schulman takes us to an anarchist, vegan cafe in Tel Aviv, where
she meets anti-occupation queer Israelis, and through border
checkpoints into the West Bank, where queer Palestinian activists
welcome her into their spaces for conversations that will change
the course of her life. She describes the dusty roads through the
West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected
to endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighborhoods have
full freedoms and resources. As Schulman learns more, she questions
the contradiction between Israel's investment in presenting itself
as gay friendly-financially sponsoring gay film festivals and
parades-and its denial of the rights of Palestinians. At the same
time, she talks with straight Palestinian activists about their
position in relation to homosexuality and gay rights in Palestine
and internationally. Back in the United States, Schulman draws on
her extensive activist experience to organize a speaking tour for
some of the Palestinian queer leaders whom she had met and trusted.
Dubbed "Al-Tour," it takes the activists to LGBT community centers,
conferences, and universities throughout the United States. Its
success solidifies her commitment to working to end Israel's
occupation of Palestine, and it kindles her larger hope that a new
"queer international" will emerge and join other movements
demanding human rights across the globe.
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people.
Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians
finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed
"undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime.
Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever
came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid
account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the
crime of homosexuality, now with a new foreword by Sarah Schulman,
remains an essential contribution to gay history and our
understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable
testament to the resilience of those who experienced the
unimaginable cruelty of the concentration camps.
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction,
the Gotham Book Prize, the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction
Award, and the Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award. A 2021 New
York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book
Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public
Library Literary Prize. One of NPR, New York, and The Guardian's
Best Books of 2021, one of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021,
one of Electric Literature's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021, one
of NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and one of Gay Times'
Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. This is not reverent, definitive history.
This is a tactician's bible. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is
the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP
and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a
broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders,
sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor,
desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS
crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on
the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who
stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA
and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in
New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to
change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they
transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and
advertising to push their agenda, and battled--and beat--The New
York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power,
transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society
that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews
with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists,
Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue
reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts,
achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most
revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the
how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite,
how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in
the process created a livable future for generations of people
across the world.
A fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side's
lesbian subculture in the 1980s, 'After Delores' is a noirish tale
about a no-nonsense coffee shop waitress in New York who is nursing
a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her. Going on
the prowl looking for a new girlfriend, her attempts to find love
again are funny, sexy and, ultimately, even violent.
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and
rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a
revelatory exploration - and long-overdue reassessment - of the
coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate
fracture. Sarah Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and
thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why,
examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of
desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process
created a liveable future for generations of people across the
world.
‘A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was
thirty years ago’
OLIVIA LAING
First published in 1990, a blistering novel about a love triangle in
New York during the AIDS crisis
It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed
right away.
It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan
with her husband Peter. She’s having an affair with Molly, a younger
lesbian who works part-time in a movie theater.
At one of many funerals during an unbearably hot summer, Molly becomes
involved with a guerrilla activist group fighting for people with AIDS.
But Kate is more cautious, and Peter is bewildered by the changes he’s
seeing in his city and, most crucially, in his wife.
Soon the trio learn how tragedy warps even the closest relationships,
and that anger – and its absence – can make the difference between life
and death.
‘Strong, nervy and challenging’
New York Times
In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah
Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people:
straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. It is within the
family that homophobia begins to control the lives of perpetrators
and recipients. Written in the tradition of Against Our Will: Men,
Women, and Rape (Ballantine Books, 2000), which transformed rape
from a private problem into an internationally recognised cultural
crisis. Ties That Bind uncovers the hidden crime of `familial
homophobia' and moves it into the open.
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The Child (Paperback)
Sarah Schulman
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Stew is a 15-year-old boy who goes online looking for an older man
to have sex with. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an
Internet paedophilia sting, Stew's life is exposed to his family
and the town. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for
himself, he ends up committing murder.
Anna O. is a loner in New York, an office temp obsessed with a
mysterious woman in white leather. Doc is a post-Freudian
psychiatrist who hands out business cards to likely neurotics on
street corners and is looking for his own fulfilment. They befriend
each other in the netherworld of the lower east side.
Set in contemporary New York, 'Rat Bohemia' tells the story of
Rita, a woman from Queens who works as a rat exterminator. Central
to the story is the plight of David, a friend of Rita's who is
dying of AIDS, and has been shunned by his family.
In Stagestruck noted novelist and outspoken critic Sarah Schulman
offers an account of her growing awareness of the startling
similarities between her novel People in Trouble and the smash
Broadway hit Rent. Written with a powerful and personal voice,
Schulman's book is part gossipy narrative, part behind-the-scenes
glimpse into the New York theater culture, and part polemic on how
mainstream artists co-opt the work of "marginal" artists to give an
air of diversity and authenticity to their own work. Rising above
the details of her own case, Schulman boldly uses her suspicions of
copyright infringement as an opportunity to initiate a larger
conversation on how AIDS and gay experience are being represented
in American art and commerce. Closely recounting her discovery of
the ways in which Rent took materials from her own novel, Schulman
takes us on her riveting and infuriating journey through the power
structures of New York theater and media, a journey she pursued to
seek legal restitution and make her voice heard. Then, to provide a
cultural context for the emergence of Rent-which Schulman
experienced first-hand as a weekly theater critic for the New York
Press at the time of Rent's premiere-she reveals in rich detail the
off- and off-off-Broadway theater scene of the time. She argues
that these often neglected works and performances provide more
nuanced and accurate depictions of the lives of gay men, Latinos,
blacks, lesbians and people with AIDS than popular works seen in
full houses on Broadway stages. Schulman brings her discussion full
circle with an incisive look at how gay and lesbian culture has
become rapidly commodified, not only by mainstream theater
productions such as Rent but also by its reduction into a mere
demographic made palatable for niche marketing. Ultimately,
Schulman argues, American art and culture has made acceptable a
representation of "the homosexual" that undermines, if not
completely erases, the actual experiences of people who continue to
suffer from discrimination or disease. Stagestruck's message is
sure to incite discussion and raise the level of debate about
cultural politics in America today.
It's summer in New York and at the Kitsch-Inn, the girls are hard
at work on their lesbian version of A Streetcar Named Desire. As
the temperature rises, enter Lila Futuransky, looking for
adventure, with her keys in her pocket and a copy of On the Road in
her hand.
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people.
Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians
finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed
“undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi
regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer
ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly
vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for
the crime of homosexuality, now with a new preface by Sarah
Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our
understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable
and complex story of survival and identity.
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Streetopia (Paperback)
Erick Lyle; Text written by Rebecca Solnit, Chris Kraus, Sarah Schulman, Chris Johanson, …
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