Fellows & Editors
Kai Wright
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 1999
- Affiliation:
- The Washington Blade
- Country:
- Zimbabwe
- Year:
- 1999
Kai Wright is a freelance journalist in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores the politics of sex and race, with a particular focus on the implications for public health. Kai contributes regularly to The Progressive, Mother Jones and Poz magazines, among other indy and community press publications. He has written for publications ranging from the Village Voice to the San Francisco Chronicle since beginning his journalism career as a reporter for the Washington Blade, D.C.'s gay community newspaper. He is also publications editor for the Black AIDS Institute -- a think tank focusing on AIDS in black America -- and is working on a book for Beacon Press about a group of gay teens growing up in working-class Brooklyn. Read more of his work at KaiWright.com.
Stories
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At Ground Zero in the AIDS Crisis, a Very Few Fight, with Little Support, Against Heavy Odds
Africa south of the Sahara has the highest rate of HIV infection per capita of any region in the world, and very few (if any) have the means needed to deal with...
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Lesbians Admonished with ‘Sew Them Up’
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - "Ska" remembers wanting to go back for her other shoe. She remembers a security guard, with his orange and green uniform, standing idle and watching the beating. And she...
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‘Totally Unacceptable to Cultural Norms’
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - The words slam across the reports’ pages: "Lesbians should be sewn up"; "Homosexuality must be punishable by hanging"; "Homosexuality and lesbianism should be banned and culprits must be...
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AIDS Stigma in South Africa
Durban, South Africa - Fall 1999 -- Winnie, a 36-year-old Zulu woman, discovered she is HIV positive when she got sick about a year after being raped. Terrified and alone, she confided in...
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Sweets, Wrappers and HIV
I was a little disappointed as we arreled into a dusty row of shops my Harare escorts called a "growth point." It was World AIDS Day in December 1999, and the rural community...
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