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By (author) Vaid Urvashi; Edited by Vaid Jyotsna; Edited by Hoffman Amy; Foreword by Kushner Tony
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The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ movement.
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The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four decades fundamentally shaped the LGBTQ+ movement. Vaid explores the LGBTQ+ movement’s impact on the AIDS epidemic and its challenges as it developed a national presence. She calls out movement leaders and donors for not addressing gender, race, and class issues and passionately argues that the goal of any liberation movement should be transformation, not assimilation. In personal essays, Vaid describes a double consciousness forged by the experience of immigration and a complicated relationship with her Indian-American and lesbian identities. Whether she was focused on the Donors of Color Network, the 22nd Century Initiative, the Lesbian Political Action Committee, or other initiatives she launched, Vaid was steadfast in her vision of a more just society and believed deeply in the power of people coming together to effect change. Offering a window into the breadth of her progressive vision for social change, this volume inspires readers to never stop organizing and marching.
Table of contents:
Foreword / Tony Kushner xi
Introduction / Jyotsna Vaid and Amy Hoffman 1
Part 1. Building a Movement
1. Formative Influences: Preface to Virtual Equality (1995) and Letters to Family (1979–1994) 21
2. A National Lesbian Agenda: Keynote Address at the National Lesbian Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, April 27, 1991 41
3. We Stand for Freedom as We Have Yet to Know It: Speech at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993) 47
4. A Shared Politics of Social Justice: An Interview with Urvashi Vaid (1998) 51
5. Awakened Activism: AIDS and Transformation (1995) 61
Part 2. Expanding Its Scope
6. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Occlusion: The Queer Idea of Asian-Pacific Americanness (2000) 85
7. Race, Power, Sex, Citizenship, and the LGBT Movement (2008) 97
8. What Can Brown Do for You? Race and the Future of LGBTQ Politics (2010) 105
9. Assume the Position: Class and the LGBT Movement (2011) 125
10. After Marriage = Virtual Equality (2016) 141
Part 3. Taking Stock
11. Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: The Context in Which Queer Nonprofits Operate (2013) 147
12. Homo/mentum of the “Status Queer”: A Critical Look at the LGBT Movement (2015) 155
13. Irresistible Revolution: Understanding the LGBT Movement (2017) 163
14. The 22nd Century Initiative Countering Authoritarianism (2021) (Cowritten with Scot Nakagawa) 173
Part 4. The Promise—And Precarity—of Justice
15. Politics as an Act of Faith: Ten Lessons from LGBT Activism (2009) 179
16. Forward-Looking 377 Order Holds Lessons for the World (2018) 183
17. It’s Time to Re-embrace a Politics of Radical, Queer, Outsider Activism (2019) 187
18. Chemo Killed the Small-Talk Gene (2014) 191
19. Longevity Is a Precarious Dream (2022) 205
Urvashi Vaid—A Biography 209
Bibliography of Works by and on Urvashi Vaid 217
Editor and Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgments 233
Notes 235
Index 261
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“Simply put, Urvashi Vaid was America’s most talented and articulate exponent of LGBTQ+ rights and liberation during the most consequential period for that movement in our nation’s history. We all live today in a wor
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