in its thirty-third year. In 1992, Schulman and five other women co-founded the Lesbian Avengers, a direct action organization. On her 1992 book tour for Empathy, Schulman visited gay bookstores in the South to start chapters. The organization's high points included founding the first Dyke March during the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, and sending groups of young organizers to Maine and Idaho to assist local fights against anti-gay ballot initiatives. Since 2001, Schulman and Jim Hubbard have been creating the ACT UP Oral History Project, interviewing 188 surviving members of ACT UP over 18 years. They produced a feature documentary, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art Gallery in the fall of 2010. Harvard purchased the archive for their collection, while maintaining free access, and the funds were used to produce United in Anger. In 2009, Schulman declined an invitation to Tel Aviv University in support of Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. She 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. She is also on the board of RAIA (Researching the American/Israeli Alliance). In 2011, she published an Op-ed in The New York Times on Pinkwashing, a term coined earlier by Ali Abunimah to describe how the Israeli government uses LGBT rights in its public relations. While employed as a university professor Schulman continued to teach and mentor writers through a number of community based initiatives including the Lambda Literary Foundation, Queer Artists Mentorship, An independent workshop for trans women writers sponsored by Topside Press, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a number of workshops run out of her apartment before the onset of Covid. She curates First Mondays at Performance Space New York: Free Readings Of New Works In Progress, held on the first Monday of each month. In 2017, she joined the advisory board of Claudia Rankine's Racial Imaginary Institute. Theater From 1979 to 1994, she had 15 plays produced in the context of the avant-garde "Downtown Arts Movement" based in New York City's East Village. Venues included The University of the Streets, P.S. 122, La Mama, King Tut Wah-Wah Hut, the Pyramid Club, 8BC, Franklin Furnace, The Kitchen, Ela Troyano and Uzi Parness' Club Chandelier, Here, the Performing