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AIDS Films - One Goal Is to Quote Unquote Change Someone's Mind
Alexandra Yuhas is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and she worked and acted up. She says that when the situation is so dire and things are so dark and people are so desperate, maybe that moment called for a different kind of demonstration. The goal is to express your anger; the goal is to say no. Those actions by act up were to express defiance and to put defiance on the map. After they made it through the mounted police to the fence and let go of those ashes, this incredible release of energy out into the universe. A magnitude of what had just happened hit me. I just began to solve compulsively.