Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism PDF
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lk AM' Dot THEY on POOTH&W 'Al Mobilizing New York GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE Coeditors Thadious M. Davis Mary Kelley EditorialA dvisory Board Nancy Cott Jane Sherron De Hart John D'Emilio Linda K. Kerber Annelise Orleck Nell Irvin Painter Janice Radway Robert Reid-Pharr Noliwe Rooks Barbara Sicherman Cheryl Wall EmeritaB oard Members Cathy N. Davidson Sara Evans Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Guided by feminist and antiracist perspectives, this series examines the construction and influence of gender and sexuality within the full range of America's cultures. Investigating in deep context the ways in which gender works with and against such markers as race, class, and region, the series presents outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, including works in history, literary studies, religion, folklore, and the visual arts. In so doing, Gender and American Culture seeks to reveal how identity and community are shaped by gender and sexuality. A complete list of books published in Gender and American Culture is available at www.uncpress.unc.edu. MOBILIZING New York AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism Tamar W. Carroll The University ofNorth CarolinaP ress/ ChapelH ill Publication of this book was supported in part by the Paul and Francena Miller Research Fellowship at Rochester Institute of Technology. @ 2015 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in 10.2/13.5 Utopia by Westchester Publishing Services Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Cover illustration Top: NCNW members at the 1977 National Women's Conference, courtesy of Janie Eisenberg. Middle: ACT UP demonstrates at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. in 1988, @ Donna Binder. Bottom: Film still from Roberta Hodes's The Game featuring MFY Cultural Arts students on a street on the Lower East Side, from Grove Press Records, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carroll, Tamar W. Mobilizing New York: AIDS, antipoverty, and feminist activism / Tamar W. Carroll. - 1 Edition. pages cm. -(Gender and American culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4696-1988-0 (pbk: alk. paper) -ISBN 978-1-4696-1989-7 (ebook) 1. Economic assistance, Domestic-New York (State)-New York-History-2oth century. 2. Feminism-NewYork (State)-NewYork-History-2oth century. 3. AIDS activists-New York (State)-New York-History-2oth century. 4. ACT UP New York (Organization)-History-2oth century. I. Title. HC1o8.N7C29 2015 322.4 3097471-dc23 2014034905 THIS BOOK WAS DIGITALLY PRINTED. Contents PREFACE Making History, ix Abbreviations, xvii Introduction, i 'i A Cauldron within Which New Ideas Can Be Tested Out, 22 MFY and the Early War on Poverty 2 / A Grand Cooker of a Scene, 49 MFY's Outgrowths 3 / Everything Then Made Sense, 79 Bridging the Neighborhooda nd Women's Movements 4 / It Was Talking about My Life, 105 Developing Working-Class Feminism 5 / Turn Anger, Fear, Grief into Action, 131 ACT UP New York 6 / It Saved My Life, 162 CreatingQ ueer Politics EPILOGUE ACT UP Will Be Here Again, 187 Notes, 195 Bibliography, 241 Acknowledgments, 263 Index, 267 Maps and Figures MAPS 1/ Lower East Side, 28 2/ Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 84 3 / Lower Manhattan and Midtown, 135 FIGURES 1/ WHAM! Statue of Liberty action, 1991, 2 2 / "Oh, Toto! They're Not in Wichita Anymore!" WHAM! poster, 1991, 6 3 / MFY social worker and NCNW founder Jan Peterson, ca. 1977, 12 4 / NCNW members Sally Martino Fisher and Diane Jackson at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, 16 5 / Protestor wearing "Silence = Death" T-shirt, 1992, 18 6 / Members of YAAG (Young Adult Action Group) in front of MFY headquarters, January 1965, 33 7 / Mobilization of Mothers (MOM) president Maria Lorenzi and MFY community organizer Petra Santiago march during the MFY voter registration campaign, ca. 1963-64, 37 8 / Poster of still images from Roberta Hodes' film The Game (1967), starring MFY Cultural Arts students and filmed in the Lower East Side, 76 9 / "Is This America?" House in Northside covered with banners from the S&S box factory fight, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, ca. 1973-74, 92 1o / "Planned Shrinkage Stops at Northside;' People's Firehouse, 1975, 94 ii/ Mural inside People's Firehouse, 1975, 95 12 / An ACT UP member wearing a "Silence = Death" button carries the ashes of his partner to the White House, October II, 1992, 143 13 / "Stop the Church" poster by ACT UP and WHAM! targeting Cardinal John O'Connor, 1989, 156 14 / "All People With AIDS Are Innocent;' ACT UP poster, 1988, 160 15 / "A Woman Dies Faster From a Botched Abortion than a Man;' WHAM! poster, 166 16 / Elizabeth Meixell at a WHAM! demonstration, 168 17 / Church Ladies for Choice, Buffalo Spring of Life counterprotest, 1992, 169 18 / Hispanic AIDS Morgue demonstration, cosponsored by the Hispanic AIDS Forum and ACT UP NY, February 26, 1991, 178 19 / Demonstrators throwing ashes over the gate onto the White House lawn, ACT UP Ashes Action, October II, 1992, 179 20 / ACT UP's twenty-fifth anniversary joint demonstration with Occupy, April 25, 2012, 189
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