Three Decades of AIDS Activism: Telling the Story of AIDS Project Worcester
AIDS Project Worcester is one of the oldest community-based AIDS Service Organizations in Worcester, having been established in 1987 by community members who were infected with HIV and their families. One of the main objectives of this three-year project has been to help tell the story of AIDS Project Worcester since its establishment nearly forty years ago. Holy Cross students have been working on an interview project that will help document the history of APW. Through storytelling methods that will lead to a podcast series, photovoice and a book, the HC and APW team will work to memorialize, bear witness to and preserve the history of APW. It will also draw attention to the persistent problem of stigma and discrimination faced by particular communities in Worcester, especially those who are substance dependent, have HIV and are sexual and gender minorities.
