In Positive Women, contributors from fourteen countries and five continents talk about living with AIDS. All the women are HIV positive, yet their stories are very different, representing a breadth of experience that reflects the diversity of women's lives. They are teachers, scientists, poets, artists, writers and students. Some work in the home, others have lived on the street, Their contributions include journal entries, narratives, poetry, graphic and photographic images. This is a book about women who shatter myths, take control and find their own power in the challenge of living with AIDS. This is an insightful and emotionally moving book with informs and inspires.

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Darien Taylor is the co-author of the international anthology Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS (Second Story Press, 1992). She is one of the founders of Voices of Positive Women, a Toronto-based organization directed by and for women living with HIV/AIDS. She continues to be involved with issues of people living with HIV/AIDS in many ways, especially through the activist organization AIDS Action Now!

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