Off the Grid: Dispatches from Chicago's Writers-in-Residence
  

January 2012

Betwixt and Between: Middle-Class Women Living with HIV/AIDS

01/24/12

Betwixt and Between: Middle-Class Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Since middle-class women with HIV/AIDS likely possess more financial resources to address their diagnosis, we assume that they experience few negative economic and social outcomes of the disease. But Celeste Watkins-Hayes writes that they, too, experience isolation and economic vulnerability...

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About Off the Grid

Off the Grid features a local writer who posts about topics of his or her choosing—anything from personal essays to reported pieces. The only requirement is that the stories be about Chicago and its people. Our current writer-in-residence is Celeste Watkins-Hayes, a sociology professor at Northwestern University whose areas of interest include urban poverty, social policy, HIV/AIDS, and issues of race, class, and gender.

 

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