Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA

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Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA is an essay based on a typeset designed by Be Oakley. This font was made from the design of protest signs used during an important and historic event in queer liberation. By sourcing letters from the handwritten signs, the font looks to historicize and reenact this critical event in the ACT UP Timeline. This publication also reprints the first section of the FDA Action Handbook.

This handbook was created from the Seize Control of the FDA event to demand that HIV and AIDS medication be fast-approved and reprioritized. This is a powerful text on our relationship to drugs during the early days of the AIDS pandemic. The handbook and other historical documentation from the Act Up movement. The

Introduction: WHY THE FDA? is an excerpt from The FDA Action Handbook by Jim Eigo, Mark Harrington, Margaret McCarthy, Stephen Spinella, and Rick Sugden 9-12-88.