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Open Your Eyes, a Global Crisis is Exploding
GALA Queer Archive T-shirt archive, photographed for Common, curated by Khanya Mashabela, 6 May – 26 July 2023. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title Open Your Eyes, a Global Crisis is Exploding Date 2002 Type Archival garment
Associated organisations Harvard AIDS Coalition
Dimensions 65 x 85 cm

OPEN YOUR EYES A global crisis is exploding Around the world today: 8200 perished. 14500 Infected. (front)
End AIDS. We can. We must. We will. Harvard AIDS Coalition presents AIDS WEEK 2002 (back)


This t-shirt was made for AIDS Week 2002, a week of programming that included panel discussions, teach-ins, candlelight vigils, and social events.

Justin D. Gest writes in The Harvard Crimson (November 19, 2002):

Approximately six hundred local college students and community members rallied in support of more funding for global AIDS prevention and treatment, braving wet and frigid weather yesterday underneath the concrete overhang of City Hall. Organised by the Student Global AIDS Campaign, the rally featured impassioned speeches from Ms. Universe 1999 Mpule K. Kwelagobe [from Botswana], Harvard Economics Professor and Director of Center for International Development Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 and a phone address from movie star and comedian Chris Tucker.

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