Sex in the Streets: Akimbo, AIDS and Cultural Activism," a review of the work of Boy with Arms Akimbo/Girl with Arms Akimbo. Guerilla poster campaigns protest signs and other interventions by Akimbo brought an in-your-face, do-it-yourself, pro-sex message to streets in the city and beyond.
WOW, I remember well spending time when I was on assignment from SPIN with this group of artists, activists and sex workers (some were all three) who united to teach safe sex. it is the best example of the mesh of common goals from different types of people together in the darkest time of AIDS with deaths everywhere,,,, I hope they live stream or video document this important making visible our history. My collection of their street art is in my archives at YALE.
Bay Area residents & visitors: Mark your calendars for this evening from 7 to 9 p.m. at the GLBT History Museum for a look back at a San Francisco collective of anonymous queer cultural activists that made a worldwide impact at the height of the AIDS crisis from 1989 to 1992.
Feminist critic Isabelle Alfonsi will present "Sex in the Streets: Akimbo, AIDS and Cultural Activism," a review of the work of Boy with Arms Akimbo/Girl with Arms Akimbo. Guerilla poster campaigns, protest signs and other interventions by Akimbo brought an in-your-face, do-it-yourself, pro-sex message to streets in the city and beyond.
Alfonsi has done extensive research in the papers of Akimbo preserved in the archives of The GLBT Historical Society. Her talk will be extensively illustrated with vintage Akimbo graphics, many unseen since they were posted in the streets nearly three decades ago.
