Activism 1980-89

Content Warning: Homophobia, Discrimination

AIDS health protocols are protested as discriminatory. Protests, distributed policy posters and panels were hosted on campus dissecting the fear and homophobia surrounding the media’s presentation of the health crisis.

Protest poster calling people to fight AIDS
Poster with event listing
Blue poster about AIDS awareness
Man at protest holding megaphone
Protestors holding abstract graphic signs
A group of protestors holding raised signs
Protest poster calling people to fight AIDS

ACT-UP RI meeting flyer, 1989

ACT-UP RI meeting flyer, 1989

Poster with event listing

AIDS: Activism, Video and the Media lecture series poster, 1989

AIDS: Activism, Video and the Media lecture series poster, 1989

Blue poster about AIDS awareness

New Rhode Island AIDS law notice, ACT-UP RI, 1989

New Rhode Island AIDS law notice, ACT-UP RI, 1989

Man at protest holding megaphone

RISD student tuition increase protest, RISD Archives photo

RISD student tuition increase protest, RISD Archives photo

Protestors holding abstract graphic signs

RISD student tuition increase protest, RISD Archives photo

RISD student tuition increase protest, RISD Archives photo

A group of protestors holding raised signs

RISD student tuition increase protest, RISD Archives photo

RISD student tuition increase protest, RISD Archives photo

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