Imani Harrington’s writing and ideas on HIV/AIDS have been featured in numerous magazines, newspapers and abstracts, as well as at local and national conferences. She also writes reviews on theater and psychology and leads workshops and performances. Ms. Harrington has received numerous awards for her writing and her social and community activism, including Bay Area Poets&Writers Award for fiction, the Giorno Poetry award and a PEN American West grant. Some of her plays include, Ashes to Dust, Master Swimmer (presented at the Exit Theatre), and Do You Have Time to Die? (presented at the Cleveland Public Theatre). Chyrell D. Bellamy (Bellamy-Sarr) has been an educator, advocate and activist in the AIDS field since 1987, specifically on behalf of women and people of color. She has collaborated on various projects with Imani Harrington for the last five years. Ms. Bellamy was an assistant director for the New Jersey Women and AIDS Network. She has studied and written articles about prevention and treatment issues of women living with HIV and understanding experiences of recovery from psychiatric illness. |
Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS Imani Harrington and Chyrell D. Bellamy, Editors Contributors: Ernest Andrews, Kehinde Apara, Kulwa Apara, Q.V. Atkins, Joanne Bealy, Zelma Brown, Migdalia Cruz, Louis Delgado, Michael John Garcés, Mario Golden, Ntombi Howell, Marijo, Chiori Miyagawa, Alfonso Ramirez, Carmen Rivera, Sandra Rodríguez, V. Thandi Sule', Cándido Tirado, Dorinda Welle, Evelyn C. White, Shay Youngblood This collection of 20 plays creatively explores the HIV/AIDS crisis, especially as women of color in the United States experience it. Positive/Negative looks at both individual and community issues, ranging from deeply personal reckonings with grief and anger to the broader institutional problems of homophobia, racism, sexism, poverty, and access to healthcare. Includes discussion questions.
"Those who are guided to this book will find in it affirmation, provocation, enlightenment, laughter and much love. Embrace its offerings as if your life depended on it, because it does." — Evelyn C. White
"I think Postive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS will prove to be one of the most important books of the decade on HIV/AIDS and art. These are the voices we’ve been waiting for, the side of the story we have not heard. This is political, this is art at its absolute most courageous, this is beyond the cutting edge. This collection takes you to the other side; it tells us what we have been wanting, needing, and afraid to know. Imani Harrington and Chyrell D. Bellamy have put together an amazing and magnificent book. We should applaud their courage." — Sapphire “This collection of plays explores the central problems faced by women of color with HIV/AIDS. A wonderful book …original and provocative.” —Roya Sakhai, Ph.D.
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