Directions: Answer all of these questions as or after you watch the film. Upload your answers to the assignment and save this to add to your film journal at the end of the quarter. The film journal will have additional questions. Come to class prepared to discuss your answers.
1.What do you make of the fact that the ACT UP activists thought to document themselves in real time?
2What did you think of ACT UP’s tactics as activists? Which signs caught your attention? Which chants?
3.At one point an activist says that AIDS is the nexus of inequality. What do you think they meant by that? How does that relate to other things we have studied in this class?
4.The activists talked about “breaking down the cult of the expert.” How do you think that is related to feminist knowledge production?
5.What did you make of the urgency we see conveyed by the activists?
6How did watching the film make you feel? Why do you think it made you feel that way?
Had you ever heard of ACT UP before? If so, how?
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