Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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, sexism, and access to health care.
Playwrights include Shay Youngblood, Imani Harrington, Sandra Rodriquez, Candido Tirado, Marijo, Mario Golden, Chiori Miyagawa, Michael John Garcès, Migdalia Cruz, Carmen Rivera, and Alfonso Ramirez.
Synopsis
A powerful collection exploring neglected dimensions of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
About the Author
Author of Love and Danger and Do You Have Time to Die?, both of which have been produced in the SF Bay Area, Harrrington is a longtime AIDS activist who has been living with HIV for over a decade. In addtion to her work for the stage, Harrington has facilitated a number of performance based community programs, including Oakland Ensemble Theaters Youth Training Progam, Russian Roulette: Teens Living with AIDS
Chyrell D. Bellamy is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Michigan. Former assistant director of the NJ Women &AIDS Network (NJWAN), she is currently researching issues related to recovery experiences from illness as well as prevention and treatment issues of women living with HIV.