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Exploration in the community of Kansas City, and social and political attitudes towards HIV/AIDS. This performance focused not only on HIV/AIDS but touched on the racial divides of the city, the stigma/ body politics especially for gay black men, and the struggles around getting care that surrounds the issue in Kansas City.
The spoken-word documentary performance focused on the stigma and body politics around HIV/AIDS here in Kansas City and as part of the bigger picture around the globe. The monologues from the script were derived from a series of real life, one-on-one interviews asking people how HIV/AIDS does, or does not affect their lives. The actors embodied characters actualized from the real life interviews. Their vignettes were a glimpse of the reality HIV/AIDS still holds in America.