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United in Anger Zine and Resource Guide

Download both from the Visual AIDS website

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What A Mitt Show: The Personal Toll of a Romney Presidency

HIVSTER Brad Crelia considers what a Romney win would mean for him.

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“This is a movie about love”

Writer Hugh Ryan considers UNITED IN ANGER

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ACT UP OCCUPY: a report from a screening

Writer Christa Orth reports on a OCCUPY + ACT UP screening of UNITED IN ANGER

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"I want to explore the private, emotional responses to AIDS and the public, political consequences.”

Alex Fialho interviews Jim Hubbard before his screenings of "Elegy In The Streets," "United In Anger," and more at Film-makers' Coop

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Theodore Kerr speaks with Tommaso Speretta about his book, "REBELS REBEL”

In this interview, Speretta and Kerr discuss the power of art and activism, representations in regards to HIV/AIDS, frustrations with the book, and Speretta’s belief in the power of activist artists.

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Acting Up in Public—HIV/AIDS Documentation and the Stakes of Representation, part 2 of 3

“I am here to tell you that more trials should be available for me and the rest of the poor. I have a home now, but about ten months ago I was still homeless.”--Phyllis Sharpe, United in Anger.

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Intern Megan Eloise launches our new tumblr

notoverAIDS.tumblr.com

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AIDS 2.0

Avram Finkelstein on the current swell of interest in US HIV/AIDS activisim.

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So what are we supposed to do with all of our anger?

Leading up to Day With(out), The Body publishes a Visual AIDS slideshow

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ross Laycock & Carl George: An archive of love and loss at Visual AIDS

Carl George, artist and friend of Ross Laycock and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, discusses the archive of letters, photographs, and more recently loaned to Visual AIDS

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Red Ribbon added to MoMA Design Collection

The Red Ribbon is joining the ranks of the @ symbol and the Google Maps pin in The Museum of Modern Art's permanent design collection.

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"Too often the past is reduced to one person, one moment.”

Ted Kerr shares OUR HERSTORY OF THE ONGOING AID CRISIS(es)

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"There is a huge impact that not telling Robert’s story has on the past, present and future of AIDS”

Ted Kerr discusses St. Louis as an epicenter for the national conversations around race, systemic oppression and health and the lives of Robert Rayford, Mike Brown and Michael Johnson.

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Time Is Not A Line introduction by Ted Kerr

"Working at Visual AIDS, where we use art to remind the world that AIDS is not over and support artists living with HIV, I have been part of a team that has had a hand in promoting, disseminating and generating conversation around this rush of cultural production. "

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Getting Ready for the Emmy Awards: A Conversation About The Normal Heart

Ted Kerr and filmmaker/academic Alexandra Juhasz discuss The Normal Heart, including what it gets right, what they think it gets wrong, and what is missing...

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Acting Up in Public—HIV/AIDS Documentation and the Stakes of Representation, part 3 of 3

"Perhaps acting up in public is still the answer." - A. Anthony

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Acting Up in Public—HIV/AIDS Documentation and the Stakes of Representation, part 1 of 3

"We can imagine HIV/AIDS activism to be like a collection of postcards sent from hell to the realm of possibility." - A. Anthony

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Play Smart Together - with Jim Eigo

"But today, peer-to-peer sex outreach is an endangered species. So much guy-on-guy sex originates in a phone app and gets negotiated in the ether, often with mutual assurances that each is “clean”. Such terminology is incomprehensible to an aging sexual reprobate like me. I am far from clean. Often I am dirty."