Heather Love and Sarah Schulman in conversation on Schulman’s new book: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair.
 
 
Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work includes Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard) and the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”) and the co-editor of a special issue of Representations (“Description Across Disciplines”). She has written on topics including comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, reading methods in literary studies, and the history of deviance studies. She is currently completing a book on practices of description in the humanities and social sciences after World War II.
 
 
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and AIDS historian. She is co-founder of the MIX: NY Queer Experimental Film Festival (now in its 29th season), The ACT UP Oral History Project www.actuporalhistory.org, is on the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and is Faculty Advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island where she is a Distinguished Professor. Conflict Is Not Abuse, is her 18th book.