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Brighton Open Door Project in the UK set up a writing group three years ago with the 'loose aim' of seeing if writing could be a therapeutic tool. "People shared wonderful stories and experiences and there was also a huge amount of talent."
A further workshop yielded masses of written work, which the group felt had to be preserved in a meaningful way. Eventually the T-Cell Chronicles was collated; a book containing 46 works of prose and poetry. With help from a local charity, a thousand copies were published at the cost of just £2,000, which were all quickly snapped up.
We aim to reach out to as many community members as possible, worldwide. Work won’t be edited, but there are a few ground rules: no racist, sexist, defamatory or excessively pornographic material, although contributions can still be “pretty sexy”.
This site is divided into different sections, with plenty of space for work by all communities affected by HIV. Contributions can be posted anonymously and there is also a section for HIV negative people affected by the virus.
This site is different from other HIV arts projects: “We’ve got a responsibility to create a historical archive as well as being a creative outlet. We’re passionate about what’s happening now. People newly diagnosed need to know what it's like living now. And we want those that have been around since the beginning to write their stories about the people we’ve lost, and those who’ve survived.”
We are keen to keep it as raw and real as possible: fiction or non-fiction.
“It’s about humanising issues, and not losing the face of things."
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone and everyone.
we are looking to make new friends and promote the community website www.tcellchronicles.org
We want people all over the world to share their stories ,infected or affected by HIV AIDS.
Please pass on this information and link to website . Thanks x
HIV/AIDS
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He died, and I admired
the crisp vehemence
of a lifetime reduced to
half a foot of shelf space.
But others came to me saying,
we too loved him, let us take you
to the place of our love.
So they showed me
everything, everything--
a cliff of notebooks
with every draft and erasure
of every poem he
published or rejected,
thatched already
with webs of annotation.
I went in further and saw
a hill of matchcovers
from every bar or restaurant
he'd ever entered. Trucks
backed up constantly,
piled with papers, and awaited
by archivists with shovels;
forklifts bumped through
trough and valley
to adjust the spillage.
Here odors of rubbery sweat
intruded on the pervasive
smell of stale paper,
no doubt from the mound
of his collected sneakers.
I clambered up the highest
pile and found myself
looking across not history
but the vistas of a steaming
range of garbage
reaching to the coast itself. Then
I lost my footing! and was
carried down on a soft
avalanche of letters, paid bills,
sexual polaroids, and notes
refusing invitations, thanking
fans, resisting scholars.
In nightmare I slid,
no ground to stop me,
until I woke at last
where I had napped beside
the precious half foot. Beyond that,
nothing, nothing at all.
Thom Gunn
He was a great writer . He wrote a poem 'The Man With Night Sweats' that was quoted in IAPAC . A doctor who read the excerpt requested the whole poem ( it discussed dementia) and in this way AIDS literature serves a very real purpose , to help people understand the illness and the man or the woman.I havent got a copy yet but Im hopeful :-)I have posted a review from POZ NATION about T CELL CHRONICLES on my blog with links :-)
Julianna
Julianna.
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Thank You for the add and it was a great discovery to find this initiative here and to read your page . I hope I can contribute if you are including overseas people. I wish you the very best with this and I hope to stay in contact - from a poz gal in Ireland :-) Julianna
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