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Virally Suppressed is a progressive blog and outreach movement centered around matters of HIV & social justice in America and across the globe.

• Same as it Ever Was: Anti-Semitism in the Ukraine

  By Drew Gibson on April 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  I am a Jew. I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, attended a Jesuit college, know The Lord’s Prayer and The Nicene Creed by heart and have never been inside a synagogue for any other purpose besides watching a friend… Read More ›

• All That Glitters Is Not Gold: A Look At Detroit’s Lackluster Renaissance

  By Drew Gibson on April 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve always found it strange that the melting pot is go to metaphor for those politicians and public figures looking to expound upon the merits of America’s diverse populous, when all a melting pot does is mix ingredients about until… Read More ›

• Mob City: How Cincinnati Became The Poster Child for Unstable Race Relations in America

  By Drew Gibson on April 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In the early morning hours of April 7th, 2001, a familiar scene was being played out in the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. A 19-year old black man, Timothy Thomas, was walking past a nightclub called “The Warehouse” when he was… Read More ›

• Watering Lawns in the Desert: What Las Vegas Can Tell Us About Climate Change (and Ourselves)

  By Drew Gibson on April 11, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  If one were to nominate a poster child for the ecological insanity of Western Civilization, the city of Las Vegas would certainly make the shortlist. Take so much as a cursory glance at the landscape on which Las Vegas rests… Read More ›

• Dragged Over The Rubicon of Sanity by a Newtown Truther

  By Drew Gibson on April 9, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the pioneering physical presence behind the creation of Occupy Wall Street is dead. The movement that it spawned is very much well and alive, but the locus of it… Read More ›

• The Eye of God Looks Upon You: Eastern State Penitentiary & The Failure of Solitary Confinement

  By Drew Gibson on April 7, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  In three of the four Gospels of the New Testament, the two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus are but bit players. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark portray them as impertinent and ignorant men who readily echoed the… Read More ›

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Equality: How the Far Right Co-Opted American Populism

  By Drew Gibson on April 4, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  The diehards always show up first. Go to any protest or march and odds are you’ll see them before you see anyone else. They’re there before the cops and before the media and before the organizers themselves. All you have… Read More ›

• Sweep The Leg Georgie: The Secrets to George W. Bush’s Electoral Success

  By Drew Gibson on April 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Much like the presidency that spawned it, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is heavy on the style and light on the substance. For the most part, the exhibits trumpeting Bush’s supposed successes bear little more than a… Read More ›

• Requiem For an Old Mountain Mining Town: Stories From Butte, Montana

  By Drew Gibson on March 27, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Like most of its coal mining Appalachian counterparts on the other side of the Mississippi, the city of Butte, Montana subsists today on little more than the fumes of its former glory. Now, over a half century removed from halcyon… Read More ›

• What Matters To You Should Matter To Me: Help Me Write What You Believe Others Need to Read

  By Drew Gibson on March 26, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Your town’s 150 year old newspaper folded a few years back because of dwindling readership, increased printing costs and the rise of internet news. The big city next to you lost its afternoon paper 15 years ago and only has… Read More ›