Our Bodies, Whose Selves?: Why AIDS is a women’s issue and how to write about it --Kellee Terrell, blogger and the associate editor for POZ.--Laura Whitehorn, jour...
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Our Bodies, Whose Selves?: Why AIDS is a women’s issue and how to write about it --Kellee Terrell, blogger and the associate editor for POZ.--Laura Whitehorn, journalist and the senior editor of POZ.Today it’s universally recognized that gender inequality—social, biological, economical and cultural—makes women morevulnerable to contracting HIV. In the United States, women make up almost half of HIV diagnosis, yet their voices and issues areignored not just by mainstream media, but also by many alternative and feminist outlets. If we can write about unfair sexistcoverage of Hillary Clinton in the election, the misogynist images and lyrics in hip-hop music and the ongoing battle to makeabortion accessible in this country, it’s time to up the ante in reporting about the number one killer of black women ages 25-34—AIDS. The goal of our session is discuss why AIDS is a women’s issue; give insight on which HIV-related issues areunderreported and which stories have been done to death; and how to encourage journalists and writers to successfully pitch thesearticles and get them published.
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Our Bodies, Whose Selves?: Why AIDS is a women’s issue and how to write about it -- Kellee Terrell, blogger and the associate editor for POZ.--Laura Whitehorn, jou...
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Our Bodies, Whose Selves?: Why AIDS is a women’s issue and how to write about it -- Kellee Terrell, blogger and the associate editor for POZ.--Laura Whitehorn, journalist and the senior editor of POZ.Today it’s universally recognized that gender inequality—social, biological, economical and cultural—makes women morevulnerable to contracting HIV. In the United States, women make up almost half of HIV diagnosis, yet their voices and issues areignored not just by mainstream media, but also by many alternative and feminist outlets. If we can write about unfair sexistcoverage of Hillary Clinton in the election, the misogynist images and lyrics in hip-hop music and the ongoing battle to makeabortion accessible in this country, it’s time to up the ante in reporting about the number one killer of black women ages 25-34—AIDS. The goal of our session is discuss why AIDS is a women’s issue; give insight on which HIV-related issues areunderreported and which stories have been done to death; and how to encourage journalists and writers to successfully pitch thesearticles and get them published.