Carole LaFavor

Carole LaFavor

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. [cite web
title =President Names to HIV/AIDS Advisory Council
publisher =The White House Press Release
date =1995-06-15
url =http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/legacy/061595-president-names-to-hiv-aids-advisory-council.htm
accessdate =2008-01-04 ] 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.

Personal life

LaFavor is Two-Spirit and Lesbian identified.cite web
title =Carole laFavor
publisher =Tangled Web UK
date =1998-16-11
url =http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/carolelafavor.html
accessdate =2008-01-04 ] [cite web
last =Malinowsky
first =H. Robert
title =Her Giveaway: A Spiritual Journey with AIDS, by Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force.
work =AIDS Book Review Journal
publisher =University of Illinois at Chicago
date =April 1994
url =http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/aidsbkrv/no8.html
accessdate =2008-01-04 ] As of 1998 she was living in Minnesota with her daughter.

Bibliography

* "Along the Journey River" (1997)
* "Evil Dead Center" (1998)

References

External links

* [http://www.pacha.gov/ Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA)]


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