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9781879960657: Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS: A Collection of Plays

Sinopsis

This collection of plays creatively explores the HIV/AIDS crisis, especially as it is experienced by women within communities of color in the U.S. Postive/Negative explores both individual and community issues, ranging from deeply personal reck-onings with grief and anger to the broader institutional problems of homophobia, poverty, racism, sex-ism, and access to health care.

Author of Love and Danger and Do You Have Time to Die?, both of which have been produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, Imani Harrington is a longtime AIDS activist who has been living with HIV for more than a decade.

Active in the AIDS field since 1987, Chyrell Bellamy is currently a doctoral student at the University of Michigan. Her research includes prevention and treatment issues of women living with HIV.

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Playwright, writer, artist, and producer Imani Harrington's writing and ideas on HIV/AIDS have been featured in numerous magazines, newspapers and abstracts, as well as at local and national conferences. She also writes reviews on theater and psychology and leads workshops and performances. Ms. Harrington has received many awards for her writing and her social and community activism, including Bay Area Poets & Writers Award for Fiction, the Giorno Poetry Award and a PEN American West grant.

Ms. Harrington's plays include Cut In The Blood/Ashes To Dust, Love & danger, Do You Have Time to Die?, Afro-Diasporic-Amenisa-Diasic, and Master Swimmer. Her plays have been performed at theaters across the U.S., such as Exit Theater, Cleveland Public Theatre, and San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre. Imani Harrington's work has been anthologized and featured in various publications and TV interviews.

Imani Harrington is currently working a number of book, art, and film projects. In 2010, Ms. Harrington received a California Arts Council grant to work on a project that includes the use of recorded images of New Orleans both during and after Hurricane Katrina.

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