Sarah Schulman

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in New York City, The United States

July 28, 1958

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female

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Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction

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Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Sarah Schulman's Books

Average rating: 3.76 · 1,473 ratings · 214 reviews · 24 distinct works · Similar authors

	Rat Bohemia 3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls, Visions and Everything: A Novel 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People in Trouble 3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Delores 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empathy by Sarah Schulman, Kevin Killian (Introduction) 3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sophie Horowitz Story 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Child: A Novel 3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.”
― Sarah Schulman, The Mere Future

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“You’re not user-friendly. You’re too needy. You have no social currency. You’re a freak. Without a normative side, you can’t get in. That’s it. Sorry.”
― Sarah Schulman, The Mere Future

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“Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.”
― Sarah Schulman, Girls, Visions and Everything: A Novel

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