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4:00pm – 5:30pm

Lecture

The Power of AIDS Activism: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden and the Disenfranchised

Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts @ 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Amber Hollibaugh, queer activist and author, My Dangerous Desires

Sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director.

Free admission.
Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor.

For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.

The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–December 23, 2009.