My collaborator on Remembering Together project recommended BBC documentary Aids: the Unheard Tapes
One of the remarkable things about the response to AIDS was how fast people living with AIDS got together and made to make that own demands. We are not victims. We are people living with aids
Sir Nick Partridge, Terrence Higgins Trust
That message was actually really important. It gave us a sense of purpose and it gave us a sense of hope.
Paul Burston ACTUP LONDON
People can look back and see what happened with this sudden movement. People who had a condition suddenly challenged the system. And now you’ve got patient groups all over the world doing similar and disability groups, and they’ve modelled themselves and a lot of this stuff that AIDS did.
John Campbell
One thing that is true is that there is no certainties, and actually life is chaos. I think we just try to make some kind of order out of that chaos.
Johnathan
The experience of listening to these stories about people wanting to be recognised as people, and the rapid collectivity to be human and kind reminded me of an illustrated book by Niki de Saint Phalle.
