Sarah Schulman: Conflict is Not Abuse

Sarah Schulman discusses her upcoming book, Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair, as well as oral history activism and queer cinema. She is the author of 17 books, most recently Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press), The Gentrification of the Mind (University of California Press) and the novel The Mere Future (Arsenal Pulp). She is the co-author, with director Cheryl Dunye, of the feature films The Owls and Mommy is Coming, both selections for the Berlin Film Festival. Schulman is a co-founder of the ACT-UP Oral History Project and a distinguished professor of the humanities at City University of New York, Staten Island. Free.