Stitching a Revolution - The Making of an Activist
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062516418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wonderful emotional visionary journey PkM I read this book from cover to cover in half a day, despite taking breaks a couple of times when I started to cry, my emotions overcome by the power of this amazing story.Cleve Jones has an inspiring tale to tell, and his ghostwriter Jeff Dawson has put the pieces together in an extremely accessible manner. The book chronicles Jones' unlikely journey as a true American hero: his happy middle class childhood, his entry into politics as an acolyte of Harvey Milk, his Quaker religious. David Michaels said "Stitching A Revolution" Must be read!. As an AIDS activist, I would implore everyone to read this account of how one man can take an idea and turn it into a world-wide reality.Cleve Jones writes honestly and from the heart - not about sex, not about dirt, but about the true experience of growing up as a gay man, coming out, and dealing with AIDS from the beginning up until now.His vision in making the Quilt a reality, and the many stories that go with it bring tears and laughter, while pointing out the universality of b. A Transforming Journey A Customer While the emotion of experiencing the Quilt cannot be confined to mere words, this inspiring journey to activism and openness is a fascinating read.In 1995, while in San Francisco to say a heartbreaking goodbye to my dearest brother, I entered the NAMES project offices and was instantly overwhelmed by the raw emotion--not just sadness, which is the obvious response, but also a healing, a unity and a strength. I have never been so moved--until I traveled to DC to witness the 1996 di
He has been speaking in public about the quilt for many years now, and his narrative in Stitching a Revolution is smooth and engaging. The quilt is predicated on a simple concept: putting names to those who have died of AIDS humanizes the statistics and forces those who visit the quilt to look beyond the stigmatized categories of gayness and contagious disease that cling to the popular image of AIDS. I brighten and feel combative." --Regina Marler. There can be few American stories more inspiring than that of the tremendous 43,000-panel AIDS quilt, a national m
The Quilt has affected the lives of many people, bridging racial, sexual, and religious barriers to unite millions in the fight against AIDS.Stitching a Revolution is a compelling, dramatic tale with a cast of memorable characters from all walks of life. Both an important cultural history of the AIDS crisis and an intimate personal memoir, Stitching a Revolution is the story of a man who, besieged by discrimination, death, and despair, found the courage and strength of spirit to conceive and create a unique healing vision-the AIDS Memorial Quilt.Against the turbulent backdrop of politics and sexual liberation in San Francisco during the seventies, Jones recounts his coming-of-age alongside friend and mentor Harvey Milk--and, later, Milk's assassination and the ensuing riots that threatened to tear down