Brownies from Houghton Regis visit new development to help encourage women in construction
Data reveals women make up up just 1% of the construction industry workforce
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Data reveals women make up up just 1% of the construction industry workforce
Data reveals women make up up just 1% of the construction industry workforce
On the legacy of ACT-UP in our own era of viral panic
How ACT UP Shook the Straight Power Structure Sarah Schulman has written the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and AIDS activism in the U.S. The accomplishments of the direct-action HIV organization, ACT UP, are staggering. Over the course of six years, from 1987 to 1993, ACT UP designed a fast-track system where those who were sick could access unapproved experimental drugs, ran a four-year campaign to force the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its definition of those at risk for AIDS to include women, made needle exchange legal in New York Cit...
Sarah Schulman Discusses Her Massive ACT UP Tome ‘Let the Record Show,’ Coming This May Book design by No Ideas; portrait by Drew Stevens It’s fascinating to watch how traumatic and fraught events get historicized, isn’t it? Think the Holocaust. Think the Vietnam War. And think the U.S. 1980s and ’90s AIDS crisis and the furious activism that rose up to meet it. Only in the past decade have we started seeing major nonfiction works of film or publishing take on that seismic era (which, we should point out, is not over). First, we had David France’s Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary