Stitching a Revolution - The Making of an Activist
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062516418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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PkM said Wonderful emotional visionary journey. 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 Quake. "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 univer. A Customer said A Transforming Journey. 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
Demoralized by the tide of death and despair sweeping his community, brutally assaulted by gay-bashing thugs, and faced with the specter of his own positive diagnosis, Jones sought a way to restore hope to a world falling apart beneath his feet.What started out as a simple panel of fabric stitched for his best friend now covers a space larger than twenty-five football fields and contains over eighty thousand names. From the frontlines of one of the greatest human struggles of our time comes this powerful and moving tale. At times uplifting, at times heartwrenching, this inspiring story reveals what it means to be human and how the power of love conquers all--even death.. 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 creat
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. Cleve Jones stitched the first panel in his backyard in February 1987 as a memorial to his best friend, Marvin. There can be few American stories more inspiring than that of the tremendous 43,000-panel AIDS quilt, a national memorial as powerfully symbolic as the Vietnam War Memorial--but made from a material as fragile and ephemeral as human life. He has been speaking in public about the quil