Bio

Anne-christine d’Adesky Biography About

Bio

 
Photo: Juno Rosenhaus

Photo: Juno Rosenhaus

Anne-christine d’Adesky, creator of Bodies On The Line and The Kiki HIV Reporting Scholarship, is an investigative journalist, author of four books, and documentary filmmaker. She reported on the global AIDS epidemic for New York NativeOUTThe Nation, and The Village Voice, and currently writes for PrideLife and other publications, and reports on Project 2025, the right-wing attack on democracy.

D’Adesky received the first Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, was an early member of ACT UP, co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers, and launched the Bay Area Queer Anti-Fascist Network after the 2016 election.

Her books include The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris (2017)Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and Under the Bone, a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti.

D'Adesky is finishing her latest book. She is based in Brooklyn.