ABSTRACT
This chapter examines successes achieved through emancipatory alliances between women and gay men in New York City. These 40 years cover the transition from second to fourth wave feminism, but also trace author own professional trajectory, which has been continually informed by the critical and creative intersection of feminist and AIDS activism. New York City in the 1980s became a place where feminist theory and practice met with AIDS activism to create radically new affiliations and alliances that resonate. Removed by a century from the first women’s movements that arose from industrialisation and modernity, the last three waves of feminism are intimately intertwined with this global digital restructuring of capitalism. In 1996, Urban Diaries was exhibited as a three-monitor digital animation installation at Parsons School of Design and an interactive web-based online text and photo essay that followed the daily lives of three individuals in Bangkok, Taipei, and Bucharest.
