And then I got - and I met Brian there. GROSS: So it really was like an art piece in an art museum protesting the Sackler family. Every stereotype I didn't fulfill was an excuse for more mockery. My family also saw mental health issues as spiritual problems to be prayed about, not as problems that required medical treatment.
You spent a few months working as a dancer at a bar in New Jersey. Are you going to do, like, off the rack? And - but also, the last few years I started working in the daytime and I - at the beginning I wanted to hear everybody's life story. Exuse me this is my room raw wwe. It's Charles Aznavour singing "What Makes A Man. " That name was on the walls in acknowledgements of the family's major financial donations. And it was one of the most dangerous places in the world.
I wouldn't say that they're your normal cliches. A Visible Minority with Undiagnosed ADHD. But it also made me very aware of the family because my mother's first reaction that I heard her say to the police is, don't let the children know. Despite the fact that for two decades none of them ever got to within a makeable field goal's distance of either one of these men. So - and that's been sort of the motivating force of my whole life. Exuse me this is my room raw deal. And one thing I always appreciate about Coach Belichick and like, is that he's not afraid to have a hard conversation too.
Why My ADHD Was Overlooked. She earned my trust on that. I photograph the sky mainly - and animals. Because some of your groundbreaking photos are about when you're young and when you and your friends are kind of recreating yourselves to be the people who you really are as opposed to the people who you were told to be. And if she had changed her mind after we did the interview, I would have absolutely respected that. Did you learn things from the ACT UP group that protested the lack of medical attention and funding for AIDS research and the lack of government attention? Exuse me this is my room raw data. Some of the other people that testified were incredibly moving. And, yeah, I'm a different person. Undiagnosed ADHD in high school meant I rushed through assignments, crammed for tests, and often lost my schoolwork. They looked completely dead, both of them that were on camera, Theresa and David. There were moments that were, you know, never intolerable.
And then, with the slideshows, how she juxtaposed the images with the music and her editing - you know, it's all so cinematic. But I would like to make a piece about age and mortality. GROSS: It's getting late (laughter) in terms of... GOLDIN: Tell me about it. It's Lucinda Williams singing "Unsuffer Me. There's two, like, pretty famous photos of you.
It has not disappointed: Here are the quotes: "For me, there's nobody I'd rather be associated with. "I never really appreciated the way people would try to do that. They were very, very collaborative with the group. She founded the group P. A. I. N., an acronym for Prescription Addiction Intervention Now, which led anti-Sackler die-ins and other protests at museums. GOLDIN: The other thing is we were - after that - thanks, Laura. And then after that, you ended up working at a bar in Manhattan that was run by a woman who was trying to help former sex workers get out of the business. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's art and activism : Shots - Health News. Did you want them to look theatrical or did you want them to look just like day-to-day life? And every word of this is exactly how I've imagined it to be. At the young age of 11, what message did you take away from her death by suicide, messages about life or death or suffering?
And if all the romantic movies I've ever seen have taught me anything, it's that the best kind of love is the kind that exists between two very different people, who somehow manage to see through their differences and find strength in the ties that bind them. When my guest, Nan Goldin, started taking her photographs to galleries back in the late 1970s, the photos were considered too transgressive, too raw, too weird. GROSS:.. more gentle than in a blizzard. William Wallace and Hamish. Some of your early work was about your friends who were drag queens.
The answer is, he wouldn't lie about it. They felt very large and dangerous to me, whether or not they were. The customers come in with doubt and wonder what I'm all about but leave believing. GROSS: The sky and animals? My friends teased me for being "random" and hinted that I was of lower intelligence due to my struggles in school. Poitras is best known for directing the documentaries "Risk, " about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, and "Citizenfour, " about Edward Snowden, who handed over classified NSA documents to Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald. It was the same situation in school, except the color of my skin made me an even larger target. POITRAS: I'm way behind. You were recovering from being battered. I looked slightly more palatable, but I paid a high price by damaging my hair and scalp. I do a very special show where I am nude from head to toe after strip teasing. And she actually said, like, I think this is something that I'm willing to - I'm ready to talk about to destigmatize it.
Did we always see everything exactly the same way? So I was wondering if you wanted to, you know, take more photos now that you are older and know who you are and see the world maybe differently than you did when your formative photos were taken. GOLDIN: I think I was also an activist during the AIDS crisis, but unfortunately... And, you know, it's about getting old and trying to understand mortality. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Your readership and support help make our content and outreach possible.
GROSS: Did you take it personally if they ripped it up? And there is no better real world example of this true, abiding love between two opposite people united by a common goal that the dual GOATs, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
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