Quilts, Complacency & Crime
To mark the 25th anniversary last year of the AIDS Quilt I ran a two-page spread of Canadian panels in the December issue of In Toronto magazine published to coincide with World AIDS Day. The quilt now contains more than 94,000 names on more than 49,000 panels, covering 1.3 million square feet and weighing 54 tons. Amazingly, the entire quilt is viewable online, here. It’s a stunning, startling document when viewed as a whole, but its real power is felt when you zoom in and really look at individual panels.
This year I was very proud to contribute to Sarah Liss's wonderful cover story on AIDS in the current issue of The Grid. The story is told from the perspective of two different generations of activists as represented by the amazing Christian Hui and Tim McCaskell. One shocking stat: One in 120 adult Torontonians are living with HIV. I wrote a companion piece on the increasing number of criminal prosecutions brought against HIV-positive people in Canada, and a timeline of AIDS advocacy in Toronto. Thanks to deputy editor Rachel Giese for the assignment.
This year I was very proud to contribute to Sarah Liss's wonderful cover story on AIDS in the current issue of The Grid. The story is told from the perspective of two different generations of activists as represented by the amazing Christian Hui and Tim McCaskell. One shocking stat: One in 120 adult Torontonians are living with HIV. I wrote a companion piece on the increasing number of criminal prosecutions brought against HIV-positive people in Canada, and a timeline of AIDS advocacy in Toronto. Thanks to deputy editor Rachel Giese for the assignment.
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