Vicki Byard

Vicki Byard is a Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the Director of the First-Year Writing Program and has served as Faculty Fellow in NEIU’s Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs. Her work focuses on rhetoric, writing pedagogies, culturally inclusive pedagogies, anti-racism, LGBTQ+ literature and history, and physical embodiment. She can be contacted at [email protected].
AIDS Play ‘The Normal Heart’ Is a Guide During COVID-19 and Political Indifference
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AIDS Play ‘The Normal Heart’ Is a Guide During COVID-19 and Political Indifference

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 / 29 June 2020

When national leadership isn't addressing a pandemic as it should, Larry Kramer, as playwright and activist, pens the only viable response: "Everyone's entitled to good medical care. If you're not getting it, you've got to fight for it."