It’s not hard to be a Monday morning activist. In fact, it’s quite natural for folks to look back at the past that other people participated in and convince themselves that they would’ve done different. No one cares to be… Read More ›
advocacy
Let Them Drink Pop: Detroit’s Water Crisis & The Fight For Basic Human Rights in The Motor City
During the Super Bowl earlier this year, Chrysler unveiled the latest iteration of the “Imported From Detroit” advertising campaign that has been such a key part of their rebranding efforts in the wake of their filing for bankruptcy in 2009…. Read More ›
Rage, Rage With West Virginia Against the Dying of Their Right to Clean Water
In May of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the commencement address at the University of Michigan and first laid out the framework of what would become his vision for America’s “Great Society.” In the speech, LBJ reflected on the… Read More ›
What Islam Can Teach Us About HIV Outreach
With the the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC coming up in less than three weeks, it is fitting that we should be looking to foreign nations for strategies with which to fight the HIV epidemic in this country. While… Read More ›
Holding HIV Down
What does it mean to suppress something? Like so much of our language, the word itself comes from Latin: suppressus, from supprimere. It meant to hold down—to push under. The word sounds violent and malicious, like leaning your weight upon… Read More ›
The Meaning of Leadership in HIV
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus: a retrovirus only 120 nanometers in diameter. It is 60 times smaller than a red blood cell and yet has killed more people than World War I, The Civil War and The Vietnam War combined. The… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 