Fellows & Editors
Jordyn Taylor
- Trip:
- Durban 2016
- Affiliation:
- Mic
- Country:
- South Africa
- Year:
- 2016
- Find me on:
Jordyn Taylor is a health staff writer at Mic. She covers a broad range of health, science and technology stories, with a focus on how they relate to women in the LGBTQ community. She previously worked as a staff writer at the New York Observer, and she is an alumna of Hamilton College and New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Jordyn is now based in New York City.
Stories
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Meet the Women in South Africa Who Walk Miles Every Day to Test Their Neighbors for HIV
The landscape outside Eshowe, a town about two hours northwest of Durban, is an undulating green sea of sugar cane plants. Houses appear intermittently, sprinkling across the hills. Monkeys crouch at the...
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Researchers Calculated the Economic Cost of Homophobia — and the Numbers Are Staggering
Homophobia exacts a devastating emotional toll. But according to Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS researcher Erik Lamontagne, discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual communities carries a...
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Charlize Theron Calls Out Racism’s Role in the AIDS Crisis
Charlize Theron has identified the real reason AIDS is still an epidemic, despite all the tools we have to fight the disease. At the opening ceremonies of the 2016 International AIDS Conference, the...
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