Museum of Resistance and Resilience Main MenuPraxis #1: Curation and Annotation (Group Project)details of Praxis #1 assignmentPraxis #1.1 War, Memory, And Identity: Beyond Victims and Voice Museum of Resistance and ResilienceProfessor Marjory Wentworth Honor's Class at College of CharlestonPraxis #2 Media Intervention, Multimedia Essay (Individual Project)Entry 2 in our Museum of Resistance and ResiliencePraxis #3 Manifesto of Future Resistance and ResilienceMedia Intervention/Media PostsFinal Course Reflection - A Letter to the FutureDue November 18Vicki Callahanf68c37bed83f129872c0216fae5c9d063d9e11baLisa Müller-Tredecc71af55f5122020f2b95396300e25feb73b6995
NONCONFORMITY
12020-09-22T23:52:15-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765377843plain2020-09-23T16:15:42-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765The purpose of the ACT-UP protests was to provide a disruption to societal procedures, to produce noise, and to break the censorship of oppression. At the time, the LGBTQ community was suffering as the AIDS epidemic swept through. Instead of assistance and support programs from the government, they were met with silence and empty promises. Innocent lives were at stake, and yet political leaders and health providers remained stagnant, assuming the idea the LGBTQ people weren’t worth their time—that they weren’t deserving of any respect. The ACT-UP protests came about as an act of survival and as a way to give a voice to the unheard, breaking free of society’s stigma of gay peope. It was a message to all those who looked away from the injustices towards the LGBTQ community—that their abidance to society’s standards was no longer acceptable. It was impactful, attacking homophobia and ignorance simultaneously. It was nonconformity in its perfect state, addressing the difficult questions that would’ve gone unanswered. It was unorthodox, and loud.
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1media/actup pink triangle_thumb.jpg2020-09-22T18:41:28-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765Pink Triangle3Protesters joining hands in solidarity during a ACT-UP Protest in 1987. They all are wearing shirts adorning the iconic pink triangle and the phrase "Silence = Death," alluding to the harsh fact that the lack of government intervention during the AIDS epidemic is killing hundreds of thousands of people. SOURCE: Kurlwich, Sara. New York TImesmedia/actup pink triangle.jpgplain2020-09-23T00:07:26-07:00Quan Pham5397a0db6c0d89356aa3bfe1df14b02f00dd6765