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A review by greta_cross
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
5.0
It’s going to be hard for any book I read in 2023 to top this one.
Jack Lowery does such a great job of chronicling the timeline of two key activist groups during the height of the AIDS crisis, ACT UP and Grand Fury. This book is full of so much research and really gives you the full scope of these two organizations and how they worked together. Lowery not only provides the history of these organizations. He outlines the effectiveness of Grand Fury’s work, both at the time of creation and longterm.
This is one of those books that I think every single person should read. Following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, so much of the activism and backlash discussed in this book feels so near.
Jack Lowery does such a great job of chronicling the timeline of two key activist groups during the height of the AIDS crisis, ACT UP and Grand Fury. This book is full of so much research and really gives you the full scope of these two organizations and how they worked together. Lowery not only provides the history of these organizations. He outlines the effectiveness of Grand Fury’s work, both at the time of creation and longterm.
This is one of those books that I think every single person should read. Following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, so much of the activism and backlash discussed in this book feels so near.