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Blogging HIV/AIDS Stories
diary_text_01.jpg While our week-long interview with activist and writer Michael McColly has focused on HIV/AIDS groups, there are many personal websites that record stories about living with HIV.

"Less Than 50" is a tough LiveJournal where an HIV-positive blogger describes all aspects of his life, from medication battles to funny musings about life.

Over at From the Ashes, a New Yorker named Tom writes about his mid-life struggle with HIV, building a web-based community with his thoughtful, quality posts.

Tom pointed me towards Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light, where a British blogger writes about bluntly about how his life changed after he tested HIV-positive. Lines like these help others on the same journey, writing about his own identity struggles:

 "It's a slight shift of thinking to go from the virus being something that threatens to destroy everything I have (which it never did, but I think we all have that fear somewhere) to being something that opens up doors for you."

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While our week-long interview with activist and writer Michael McColly has focused on HIV/AIDS groups, there are many personal websites that record stories about living with HIV."Less Than 50" is a tough LiveJournal where an HIV-positive blo... [Read More]

» Five Easy Questions: Michael McColly, Part One from ThePublishingSpot
"The result is a revelation," wrote New Yorker journalist William Finnegan after reading The After Death Room, Michael McColly's memoir about his life as an AIDS activist and yoga instructor. "An epic twenty-first-century canvas on which... [Read More]

» Five Easy Questions: Michael McColly, Part Two from ThePublishingSpot
"Eighty-five per cent of those infected in Africa will use some form of traditional medicines to treat the spiritual and physical suffering which accompanies HIV and AIDS," writes Michael McColly, journalist and AIDS activist, in his new memo... [Read More]

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Michael McColly's new memoir, The After-Death Room, began with an intense feeling of guilt when AIDS activists begged him to stay and help them battle the spread of the virus in Africa. But unlike most people, McColly had a dramatic,... [Read More]

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