Bücher von Sarah Schulman

Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award and the 2022 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction, the Gotham Book Prize, and the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman 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 TimesTwenty 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.

Maggie Terry hat den Tiefpunkt erreicht. Gerade aus der Reha in die Welt entlassen, Exfreundin und Tochter sind schon lange weg, muss sie einen neuen Job in einer Anwaltskanzlei antreten, denn ihre Karriere bei der New Yorker Polizei ist unwiderruflich futsch. Nun heißt es den Anschluss an die Gegenwart wiederfinden. Am ersten Tag von Maggies neuem beruflichem Dasein stattet Broadway-Bühnenstar Lucy Horne der Kanzlei einen Besuch ab. Maggie soll diskret den Mord an einer Komparsin untersuchen - die Schauspielerin Jamie Wagner wurde erwürgt -, und Lucy präsentiert auch einen Verdächtigen, den bekannten Schriftsteller Steven Brinkley. Ein Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft?Maggie Terry kämpft mühsam um Bodenhaftung, pendelt zwischen Narcotics Anonymous-Treffen, irrationalen Stalking-Aktionen ihrer treulosen Ex und dem Versuch zu verstehen, was mit ihr und der Welt passiert ist ...

Collected together for the first time in one volume, Short Stories 1988 - 1991, are the twenty-nine stories Stan Leventhal included in a tiny herd of elephants and Candy Holidays.The first collection are stories about male relationships and span many literary styles including romance, fantasy, western and erotica. Some are funny, others are serious, but all invariably "playful". There are clear autobiographical elements, as in much of the author''s work. Several stories are about writers and the writing process (as life intrudes); "Schoolmarm" is set in the old west when a substitute school teacher meets his cowboy; "The Crystal Storm" offers us a lonely Warrior King, whose eyes "flash like jewels on fire", as he interrogates a handsome visitor, "unarmed and definitely not hostile". The longer pieces flesh out characters in clandestine meetings with lovers that end in a gift, or a group of tight-knit friends growing into adults at college ... there''s even a vampire tale.The second diverse, entertaining set of tales also cover several genres. In "Candy Holidays", two lovers break up, live apart, and then come back together again, the narrative catching glimpses, of them at Halloween, Christmas, Valentine''s Day and Easter. "Razorback" is a dark futuristic tale about surviving in a burnt-out city in which all order has withered and chaos reigns. In "Oasis Motel" a young man on a business trip in Los Angeles finally breaks through the sexual barrier that has contained him all his life. "Seder" is the story of a gay Jewish man''s attempt to reconcile his spirituality with his sexuality. Both collections reflect issues confronting the lives of queer people in America in the late twentieth century. This new omnibus edition features a foreword by Sarah Schulman, close friend of Leventhal and author of numerous works of fiction and social history."Stan was a literary activist who always gave to, built and endorsed literature and writers. On this Sunday morning, all these years later, I can still see Stan in his apartment window on Christopher Street, next door to the Stonewall Inn, overlooking Sheridan Square as he typed away." - Michele Karlsberg"Stan Leventhal was wonderful company: warm, honest, curious, engaging, and human. Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square is the next best thing to hanging out with him." - Christopher Bram"Stan Leventhal''s vision is clear and undaunted. For all of its somber chiaroscuro, it challenges us to see the world through new eyes and to revel in its author''s ability to translate life into art, pain into understanding." - Michael Bronski

"Needy," "high-risk," "vulnerable," "slow." When the words people use to describe themselves are the same as the labels in their case files, what does that say about how our social welfare systems shape the identity and possibilities of those who use them? In 2014, three disability organizations asked an international team of designers and social scientists to help them understand and address lived experiences of social isolation. The team moved into a social housing complex in the "loneliest city" in Canada, Vancouver, in order to get to know their neighbours with and without disabilities. The project resulted in a five-year journey of partnership and team building, co-design and prototyping, failure and learning. The social sector is stuck. Seventy years since the rollout of the modern welfare state, Canada is left with a cracked and overburdened old-world system that struggles to provide basic care. Human needs for connection, belonging, purpose and agency are largely forgotten, or actively thwarted, which prevents people from living towards their potential. Whether it is in the disability sector, or in mental health and addictions, homelessness, immigration and refugee services, youth at risk, etc., the patterns are the same: cultures of compliance; rigidity and inflexibility; deeply embedded assumptions, rhetoric and ideology; the constant recycling of similar solutions; counting up the things that don't really matter; hoarding power and control. But how do you change it? How do you reshape a giant ecosystem with engrained approaches, habitual reactions and vested interests? Instead of going big, Tulloch and Schulman suggest going small. They articulate a series of twelve strategies, or "stretches," that will enable organizations to reach in new directions. Things like attending to beauty, purpose, and identity, and designing roles that activate community capacity and bridge people to it. The aggregate of those efforts across time and contexts, they argue, can lead to a gradual repurposing of the social safety net. This book is for anyone who plays a role in the social service system ecosystem, whether you are a frontline worker, manager or leader; researcher or policymaker; part of a vocational training or social worker program; a government funder, community foundation or philanthropist; or a professional association. It's also for social innovators and intrapreneurs trying to bring change to communities and organizations. Lastly, it's for social scientists and designers who are curious to see applications of their methods to the redesign of the welfare state.

Post-rehab, Maggie Terry has one goal: keep her head down, and rebuild her life in hopes that she''ll be reunited with her daughter. But her first day as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a big one: actress strangled. If Maggie shakes her ghosts - dead NYPD partner, vicious ex, steadfast drug habit - then maybe she can crack the case.