Make Them Stop You, Sarah Schulman
Monday 23 Nov 2026 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free on booking
To mark the translation of Girls, Visions and Everything by Héloïse d’Ormesson and the publication of Solidarité: entre fantasme et nécessité by B42, Sarah Schulman reflects on a body of work in which fiction, social critique and political activism intertwine.
A leading figure in New York’s literary and activist scene since the 1980s, Sarah Schulman has been exploring the links between writing, collective memory and solidarity for over thirty years.
Over the course of an evening, she reflects on these two dimensions of her work – the novel and the essay – during a discussion with the author and curator Salomé Burstein, offering an insight into how fiction and political thought feed off one another.
A professor at Northwestern University in the United States, she was a member of Act Up New York and, in 2001, founded the Act Up Oral History Project, an initiative to collect and archive testimonies from people who actively participated in the AIDS activism movement in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. She is also involved in the solidarity movement with the Palestinian people and is a member of the organisation Jewish Voice for Peace. She is the author of numerous books published in the United States. Her essays The Gentrification of Minds, Conflict Is Not Aggression and The Ties That Bind have been published by Éditions B42, and Let the Record Show by Libertalia. Three of her novels have been translated into French: Après Delores, published by Éditions Incultes; Rat Bohemia, published by Éditions H&O; and Girls, Visions and Everything, published by Éditions Héloïse d’Ormesson.
Alongside conducting research in theater and visual studies (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, EHESS in Paris, Columbia University in New York), and investigating collective practices (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm), she has collaborated with several artistic institutions and publications through texts, interviews, and translations.
At Lafayette Anticipations, she had worked as curatorial assistant alongside Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel on the exhibitions Study For No, Coming Soon and Martine’s Syms upcoming solo show. She is also the founder of Shmorévaz (October 2021), an independent art space, located in a vacant former shoe store, dedicated to international art practitioners and publishers.