Marvelyn Brown, my brilliant and courageous friend, was on the CNN special, "Black in America," last night. If you didn't catch it, there should be clips available shortly, but meanwhile you can check out the book she and I co-wrote of her life: The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive. It will be released August 19th, but you can pre-order whenever. In it, she very frankly explores how she was infected with HIV while in a committed relationship with "prince charming" and all that happened after. Don't sleep: AIDS is the number one killer of black women aged 25-34.
And on a far less serious note, Marvelyn got us a blurb from none other than Ludacris for the cover. Just rap it: "Marvelyn Brown takes a bold approach to speak to our youth with enough honesty and frankness, everybody should be listening! She is an inspiration to men and women everywhere!" Word Cris.
Most of the feministing crew met Marvelyn last summer when we all won ChoiceUSA awards.
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I had actually seen that Advanced Reader a couple of weeks ago and saw your name on it I took it to add to my growing list of books I need to read...I can't wait now until school gives me a little time to read outside of Chaucer and Hemingway...I love working in a book store.
This reminds me of all those stories a few months back of AIDS experts saying that political correctness meant they weren't allowed to say that heterosexual transmission of HIV was only a problem in Africa and everywhere else it was mostly just gay sex and intravenous drug use. I was a little sceptical of this but I'm not as knowledgeable as I probably should be on the subject.
Now apparently heterosexual transmission of HIV is also a problem for black women in America. Is there an explanation for this that doesn't involve the phrase "down low" because that kind of "I'm not gay so I don't need to use a condom" behaviour is just as common among white men.
It's enough to make you think those wacky conspiracy theorists are onto something (I don't think that but really, there's something weird going on).