Revisioning Democracy: The #StopProject2025 Podcast, Episode 1: Queers Confronting Autocracy: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman (in person & live-streaming)

Strap in your seat belt! You’re invited to join the launch of Revisioning Democracy – a new video podcast Public Conversation about the times and challenges we face right now in America to defend our democracy and rights – and revision the world we want. This Public Conversation will examine the escalating attacks on our civil rights and our resistance, including our commitment to the unfinished project of our democracy and our visions for a better future. That includes dissecting Project 2025, the conservative blueprint to destroy our democracy and impose a Christian theocracy on America – and how we fight back.

Revisioning Democracy will examine the challenges we face in America from a queer and feminist lens, and engage activists, change-makers, and thought leaders on the frontlines of the political and cultural wars. Our first guest is well-known author, journalist, and lesbian activist Sarah Schulman, in conversation with cohosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker of the Stop the Coup 2025 campaign to fight Project 2025. Info: stopthecoup2025@gmail.com

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:

youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 for the Stop the Coup 2025 Campaign

Podcast Guest: Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, public intellectual and proud lesbian activist. She is the author of 20 books, including novels in multiple genres: historical fiction, literary fiction, experimental

Co-Hosts: Anne-christine (AC) d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker.

Anne-christine d’Adesky founded GenDemocracy in October 2023, then launched its Stop The Coup 2025 campaign in December 2023. She is an award-winning independent journalist and author, feminist, longtime human rights, gender equality and HIV activist, and author of four books.

Jay W. Walker is the social media manager for GenDemocracy’s Stop The Coup 2025 campaign. A queer Black leader and community organizer, he is a longtime New York City activist on LGBTQ+, HIV and racial justice issues, founding member of Rise and Resist, President of Gays Against Guns, and cofounder and lead organizer of NYC’s Queer Liberation March.