Note: Editors at POZ asked me and legendary AIDS activist Rodger McFarlane to collaborate on creating this infographic, which we did: Rodger fed me facts and I came up with the copy. (See Image)
Summer’s here — time for kids to get to work. Yep, you read that correctly. “Play is the work of children,” says Dr. Dave Walsh, a psychologist and founder of the National Institute for Media and the Family. “What looks to us like play can be very serious business for kids.” In fact, it instills skills. “Younger kids who crawl into the kitchen cabinet, pull out the pots and pands to play are learning music, geometry and physics…
He’s positive, she’s not. The sex? Amazing… Shawn Decker: I like to say Ryan White hooked us up. We met at a talk his mother gave. Gwenn Barringer: We’re speakers who do HIV education with college students. We’ve been together five years. I’m negative, so we’re doing something right!
Episodes of UNDERGROUND typically included two or three feature articles as well as two or three video clips. Though many clips relied on narration provided by the original songs, some clips were more punk news features, like this clip of legendary art car maker, Tom Kennedy, alongside Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen, who was underwriting Tom’s art bus. (Watch Video)
Though pregnancy didn’t have a major impact on my work, motherhood did. After Sarah’s birth, I began working part-time — three days per week — a practice I continue to this day.