Women in Revolt! Reframing AIDS and Video 28

Join HOME for a screening of two films foregrounding the campaigning spirit and activism of feminist protest in 1980s.

Combining archival footage, interviews, and media clips Pratibha Parmar’s Reframing AIDS (1987) and Vera Productions’ Video 28 (1988) explore the histories of widespread collective movements around the slow government response to the AIDS crisis and Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which prohibited “the promotion of homosexuality.”

This screening will be followed by a discussion with Jackie Stacey, Monica Pearl and Joshua Val Martin, who will bring first-hand experiences with AIDS activism and protest against Section 28 into dialogue with current debates about the fight against ongoing oppression.

This event is sponsored by IAP:MCR. This is one of a series of film screenings accompanying the Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 exhibition currently touring from Tate Britain and on view at the Whitworth from Friday 7 March – Sunday 1 June.