Tag: aids

The Throwaways
March 2013In Kenya, doctors are force-sterilizing HIV-positive women without their consent—and in some cases, without their knowledge.

A Fire in My Belly
July 2012After losing his companion Peter Hujar to AIDS, artist and activist David Wojnarowicz attempts to film grief while wrestling with his own mortality.

Laura Seay: Old Ideas for the New Africa
June 2012Obama’s “new” Africa policy prioritizes security over democracy. But the continent is changing rapidly, and U.S. policy needs to adapt–here’s why.

The Harmonizer
December 2011The Emmy Award–winning poet and crisis reporter on Haiti’s continuing struggles and Jamaica’s AIDS crisis, how Afro-Caribbean music has influenced the writing of V.S. Naipaul and Langston Hughes, and his new role as editor of Prairie Schooner.


