Zackie Achmat at Yale

Sexuality and Political Activism:  A Conversation

Tuesday, October 16
1:00 pm |  WLH 309
Lunch Provided, Please RSVP to linda.hase@yale.edu

A Dangerous Man:  Lessons in Activism and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Tuesday, October 16
4:00 pm |  YLS Room 121
Snacks Provided

Zackie Achmat has a long history in the struggle for freedom; first against apartheid, then for gay rights, and then against HIV/AIDS.  In the struggle for a new South Africa, he has also taken on a host of new issues, from education to refugee rights.  Zackie gained worldwide fame for his AIDS activism in particular.

Time Magazine named him “person of the week” in 2001, in recognition of his leadership of the Treatment Action Campaign, a grassroots HIV activist organization leading the fight for AIDS medicines in South Africa.  Time also called him “a dangerous man–at least to those he sees as perpetrators of injustice,” because of his exceptional effectiveness as an activist.  Zackie led civil disobedience efforts to import generic medicines into South Africa, and famously refused, as a matter of conscience, to take the HIV medications he needed until his countrymen also had access to them.  The Treatment Action Campaign also launched constitutional litigation that led to one of the most famous socioeconomic rights cases of our time.  Come hear this world renowned activist and thinker reflect on his experiences, and what they might teach us today.

Sponsored by the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale Law School with the Yale School of Public Health, the Yale Program in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies at Yale

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