Carole LaFavor
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Carole S. LaFavor was an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995–1997 and a founding member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American people with HIV/AIDS.[1] She was featured in Mona Smith's 1988 film Her Giveway 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
She was born in Minnesota.
LaFavor was Two-Spirit and Lesbian identified.[2][3]
Death
LaFavor died on November 21, 2011.[4]
Bibliography
- Along the Journey River (1996)
- Evil Dead Center (1998)
