Carole LaFavor

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Carole S. LaFavor (b. Minnesota) is an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995-1997 and a foundng member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American people with HIV/AIDS.[1] She was featured in Mona Smith's 1988 film Her Giveway (Women Make Movies) about her experiences as a person living with AIDS. Her two novels, Along the Journey River and Evil Dead Center were both published by Firebrand Books and her essay "Walking the Red Road" appears in the anthology Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS edited by Andrea Rudd and Darien Taylor.

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[edit] Personal life

LaFavor is Two-Spirit and Lesbian identified.[2][3] As of 1998 she was living in Minnesota with her daughter.[2]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Along the Journey River (1997)
  • Evil Dead Center (1998)

[edit] References

  1. ^ President Names to HIV/AIDS Advisory Council. The White House Press Release (1995-06-15). Retrieved on 2008-01-04.
  2. ^ a b Carole laFavor. Tangled Web UK (1998-16-11). Retrieved on 2008-01-04.
  3. ^ Malinowsky, H. Robert (April 1994). Her Giveaway: A Spiritual Journey with AIDS, by Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force.. AIDS Book Review Journal. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved on 2008-01-04.

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