Health Education AIDS Liaison, Toronto
Celia Farber's Column
August 2nd 1999
Ignoring the Flames
AIDS dissidents take their message to Capitol Hill while
the establishment pretends there's nothing to discuss.
… Plus, more on barebacking.
July 5th 1999
A Crack in the Wall
After six years as an AIDS educator, Mark Pierpont
resigned because he could no longer participate in what
he feels "may one day be seen as the greatest violation
of the principle of informed consent in the history of
Public Health."
June 7th 1999
Positively Flawed
The difference between thinking you will live and
thinking you will die often depends on an HIV
antibody test that is shockingly unreliable. The
case of a 3-year-old boy in North Carolina proves
that even hospitals have to admit this now.
May 3rd 1999
SOUL OF THE FIRE
The Tyson family loses its breast-feeding court battle in Oregon.
Plus, federal AIDS funds are being challenged from within, and
ACT UP San Francisco shows its teeth with full-page ads.
April 5th 1999
WASTING AWAY
Stephen Rogers looks back at the horrifying sickness he went
through in the name of health and wonders what, exactly, is so
wondrous about drugs that decimate the very quality of life
they're supposed to preserve.
March 8th 1999
PANIC ATTACK
We are in the midst of the second major wave of
AIDS terror propaganda. But people are rational.
The mass hysteria isn't coming back.
February 8th 1999
A GRIEVOUS ROAR
An HIV-positive mother in Oregon almost loses
custody of her baby because she resists giving him
AZT and wishes to breast-feed him. Impression
looks at the continuing attack on families in the
name of HIV heroica.
January 11th 1999
UNPROTECTED
Rather than fearing the HIV virus, there are gay
men who actually eroticize it, and their stories are
seeping through to the mainstream. This is
madness, to be sure, but it also says a lot about the
power of human lust and rage.
December 14th 1998
THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING
In a decision that will affect millions, the CDC is
forcing states to document everyone diagnosed
with HIV, civil liberties be damned. As the AIDS
hysteria scenario is getting played out to its
logical conclusion, it's time to wonder: Where is
the outrage?
Welcome To The Machine
November 16th 1998
AIDS As Metaphor
It is not the HIV retrovirus that has changed our world so
indelibly. It is the idea that physical contact and intimacy can
kill you. The mass hysteria has invaded our homes and schools
and even influenced the Clinton-Lewinsky crisis.
October 19th 1998
The Nightmare Continues
Valerie Emerson's battle to keep her HIV-positive son off of
toxic AIDS drugs isn't quite over, despite her recent victory in
court. The woman at the epicenter of the storm tells
Impression why she isn't scared.
September 21st 1998
A Mother's Love
After seeing her daughter Tia die horribly while on AZT,
Valerie Emerson didn't want her four-year-old son Nikolas to
suffer a similar fate. She was dragged into court because of her
stance, and her legal victory comes as a watershed event in a
climate of increasing medical fascism.
August 24th 1998
Fear and Loathing in Geneva
Some Reflections on the Sorry State of AIDS Journalism
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