This Land Is My Land: Sarah Schulman
What do people have to be in order to receive compassion, and why does the Left ostracize so much when it is counter to its own values of inclusion? Sarah Schulman, a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian, joins Interloper to discuss an array of topics such as radical democracy, simultaneity, gentrification, compassion, supremacy ideology, and more.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and serves on the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Books discussed in this conversation:
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 (2021)
Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (2016)
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2013)
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