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An AIDS activist contemplates the heyday of agitprop iconism and laments the lack of urgency in the movement’s recent history. —New York Times Magazine
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An AIDS activist contemplates the heyday of agitprop iconism and laments the lack of urgency in the movement’s recent history. —New York Times Magazine