Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA [Compilation]

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Title

Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA [Compilation]

Subject

AIDS, activist video, revolutionary, collective, women, women filmmakers, teens, BIPOC

Description

Compilation of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV." DIVA TV, an activist colleactive working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video that complimented my own efforts, which were more community based. Many of the people represented in this collection were also in that collective: Jean Carlomusto, Ellen Spiro, Greg Bordowitz, and more. There is also a tape by my longtime collaborator and friend Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski on this compilation which was produced for the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force.

Creator

Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, DIVA TV

Date

1988

Coverage

https://actupny.org/nypl/gmhc.html

Abstract

Seize Control of the FDA took place on October 11, 1988. This was ACT UP’s first national action and was coordinated by an ad hoc group of ACT UP members from around the country called ACT NOW (AIDS Coalition to Network, Organize and Win). Approximately 1,500 activists from around the U.S. descended on the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, MD to demand that the FDA speed up the research, development and approval of drugs for AIDS. The afternoon before in front of the Health and Human Services building in Washington, DC, ACT UP held a “mock trial” of various people who impeded the AIDS movement and Vito Russo delivered the second version of his “Why We Fight” speech. --ACT UP Oral History Project

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Duration

60 mins

Producer

GMHC

Director

DIVA TV

URL

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=10893186&node=47285180&a=69411275

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Citation

Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, DIVA TV, “Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA [Compilation],” VHS Activism Archive , accessed December 8, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/793.

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