ACT UP London

16/10/2026

Huge thanks to Callum Wells and all at Attitude Magazine for this beautiful coverage of our 'ACT UP at 40 - Celebrating Resistance and Demanding Healthcare for All' Calendar - we are all very proud of it! Thanks hugely to all the Faerie fam who have made this happen too.

You can buy it here - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4583499550/act-up-at-40-celebrating-resistance-and - as well as register for the London launch next Friday - https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40074/act-up-at-40-london-calendar-launch-a-celebration-of-40-years-of-resistance-and-collective-power . If your organisation, school, bookshop, community space would like a bulk order please DM me.

Why this calendar is important (and fabulous).

David Robinson, an early member of ACT UP New York and ACT UP/Golden Gate, said the project could help inspire further campaigning.

“I find the ‘ACT UP at 40’ calendar deeply moving. AIDS activism – and healthcare activism more broadly – is needed as much as ever, and this calendar is a beautiful tool for inspiring more of it,” he said.

The calendar also documents the contributions of local groups, including ACT UP Dublin Act Up-Paris ACT UP Argentina and New York’s ACT UP Latina/o Caucus. The latter brought HIV/AIDS education into Latino communities through translated information, grassroots outreach and public events, including the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Writer and broadcaster Alix Fox said the anniversary came amid continuing challenges around access to treatment, including the price of lenacapavir and the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and patients.

“ACT UP’s 40th year is a birthday, with so very much to celebrate. Yet it’s also a Ruby Anniversary – and there remain so many issues we must see red about,” she said.

https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/act-ups-2027-calendar-marks-40-years-hiv-aids-activism-537328/

All profits will go towards ACT UP’s Fund Healthcare Not Warfare campaign, which is building towards an international day of action in 2027.

06/10/2026

This place in Brentwood (Ess*x) charged me £6.60 for a double expresso.....? Don't go there comrades. Andria here xx

01/09/2026

20/08/2026

This is sweet. X

01/07/2026

FORCED TRANSFERS - GENEVA CONVENTION ARTICLE 49
( Under the Geneva Conventions there is supposed to be a Protecting Power to balance the Occupying Power, there is no Protecting Power for Palestine )

“ Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.

Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased.

The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals are effected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family are not separated.

The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have taken place.

The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to the dangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.

The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. “
( This means illegal Israeli settlers )

19/06/2026

Last Wednesday, Mildmay Hospital was raised in Parliament, and it's worth explaining why.

Our MP, Rushanara Ali, told the Prime Minister at Prime Minister's Questions that Mildmay, where Diana, Princess of Wales, made seventeen visits to help break the stigma around HIV and AIDS, is often at risk because of NHS commissioning issues.

Sir Keir Starmer responded that Mildmay is "synonymous with extraordinary care and compassion," and committed to a meeting with the Health Minister to look at the issues raised.

Mildmay still provides exactly the kind of specialist care the NHS is desperately short of, but funding gaps mean our beds aren't always full.

With the 30th anniversary of Diana's death next year, we want Mildmay to be around to mark it and to carry on the work she cared about.

Read the full story: mildmay.org/post/mildmay-pmqs-and-the-nhs-crisis-that-needs-our-help

15/06/2026

Huge love and respect to Angelina, Gideon, Bakitam Adam for this brilliant conversation at last weeks panel discussion for 'Tenderness and Rage' :)

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Join health researcher and poet Bakita Kasadha, curator Adam Rose, photographer Gideon Mendel, and advocate and activist Angelina Namiba for a panel discussion exploring stories of protest and intimacy in our new exhibition display, ‘Tenderness and Rage’.

From the UK’s AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s to global experiences of HIV today, they’ll discuss everyday acts of care and activists’ fights for dignity, rights and equitable access to treatment.

Adam will take us behind the scenes of the display, exploring the importance of sharing these stories today. Angelina will share insights from three decades of experience in the HIV sector, and her work as founder of 4M Network of Mentor Mothers living with HIV.

Gideon will reflect on two photographic projects at the heart of the display:

‘The Ward’ documents the lives of patients on AIDS wards in 1990s London
‘Through Positive Eyes’ shares the stories of people living with HIV worldwide today.

Join health researcher and poet Bakita Kasadha, curator Adam Rose, photographer Gideon Mendel, and advocate and activist Angelina Namiba for a panel discussi...

04/06/2026

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17/05/2026

Counting down the days to the opening of 'Tenderness and Rage' exhibition at Wellcome Collection which I've been recording some of the audio for. Here's the gorgeous quilt that will be at the entrance created by and here's some words on why it matters in a recent piece by 'The Art Journal' called 'AIDS Is Not Over. Why Does Its Art Feel So Historical?'

'Straddling the domains of archive, museum and public health resource, the Wellcome Collection is uniquely placed to address the cultural afterlives of those lost to the disease. The institution has been working closely with the UK branch of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) on Tenderness and Rage, a forthcoming exhibition focusing on stories of protest and intimacy around HIV/AIDS, opening this May.

“I think it is hugely important to facilitate intergenerational conversations around HIV and AIDS,” says curator Adam Rose. “The political force of art and activism comes from deeply personal bonds, and from rage that is focused, specific, and rooted in demands for care, dignity, and full humanity. Part of the exhibition’s work is to foreground those objects, stories and voices within our collections.”' https://www.theartjournal.com/articles/aids-is-not-over

See you at the Wellcome friends! It opens on May 29th - all details here https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibi.../tenderness-and-rage