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I offer editing
and writing services for nonprofits, think tanks
and advocates. Check out the About
page and the projects below for examples of the independent sector
work I've done.
I'm
also available to join panels or speak
on the range of topics
discussed on kaiwright.com:
HIV at home and abroad; race and sexuality in public policy; queer
politics and culture; and the roles of community and independent
media.
Contact
me to ask about rates and availability
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Kai Wright
Photo by Clint Steib
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The
Latest...
2004
Black Soldiers Calendar
Shades
of Color, a black-owned small business that produces calendars and
stationary, is creating a 2004 calendar based on my book Soldiers
of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the
Armed Forces. The calendar includes several images from the book
and brief histories I've written both on individuals and events
and on the broader political context.
Buy it from
Shades of Color
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Ongoing
Projects...
Heroes
in the Struggle
An annual photographic tribute to African American
HIV/AIDS trailblazers, from celebreties to activists. The traveling
exhibit, unveiled every World AIDS Day (December 1), features powerful
portraits accompanied by profiles, many of which I've written. It's
sponsored by the Black AIDS Institute, which keeps the full
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Global
AIDS conference news
At each biannual International
Conference on HIV/AIDS, the Black AIDS Institute partners with
the National
Newspaper Publishers Association, American
Urban Radio Networks and the official conference newsletter
to report news from the event for an African American, African and
Caribbean audience. In addition to filiing daily stories for those
media outlets, the Institute publishes its own daily
newsletter and web site. I was the project's founding editor
and manager during the 2000 conference in Durban, South Africa and
led it again in 2002 in Barcelona, Spain. I will once more serve
as an editor in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004.
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Previous Projects...
20th
Anniversary of the AIDS epidemic
June 2001 marked an unwelcome
two decades of the world living with HIV. I guest edited a special
section of the Black AIDS Institute's newsletter Kujisource
for the occassion. We published essays from a positive mother, a
gay man who became sexually paralyzed after the epidemic killed
his friends, a young woman who has never known a world without the
epidemic and a pastor who has lived with the virus in his body for
nearly 20 years himself. |
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A
Black Gay Men's "Call to Action" on HIV
In April 2003, I joined 40 black gay men from around
the country for a weekend retreat in Miami, Florida, to discuss
how we can help influential non-activists in our community become
leaders in the fight against HIV. Those of us who have been involved
in the movement had a rare opportunity to share with and hear from
hip hop industry execs and artists, businessmen, film and television
writers and directors, elected officials and others. We closed the
meeting with a statment declaring, "It is time for Black gay
men to stand up and be counted. In order to participate in the healing
of our community, we must first heal ourselves..." --Read
the entire statement
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