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Kai Wright
Affiliation during program: The Washington Blade
Country Focus: Zimbabwe

Kai Wright

Program: Fall 1999 [email protected]

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

	· Sweets, Wrappers and HIV

	· AIDS Stigma in South Africa

	· �Totally Unacceptable to Cultural Norms�

	· Lesbians Admonished with 'Sew Them Up'

	· At Ground Zero in the AIDS Crisis, a Very Few Fight, with Little Support, Against Heavy Odds