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.
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.
Urvashi Vaid (1958–2022) was an LGBTQ rights activist, lawyer, writer, and the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Jyotsna Vaid is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Women's and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. Amy Hoffman is a writer, editor, activist, and the author of five books. Tony Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, playwright, and screenwriter.
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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
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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