Katrina Haslip

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Katrina Haslip
Born1959 (1959)
Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.
DiedDecember 2, 1992(1992-12-02) (aged 32–33)
New York City, U.S.
Known forAIDS activist and educator, formerly incarcerated activist

Katrina Haslip was an AIDS educator and activist who played an essential role in the campaign to change the criteria for government recognition of AIDS to include the symptoms uniquely experienced by women. She co-founded AIDS Committee for Education (ACE) for women incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women and its counterpart ACE-OUT for women leaving prison.[1]

Early life

Haslip was born in 1959 in Niagara Falls, NY and was one of 12 children. She was Muslim.[1]

Incarceration

In 1985 Haslip was incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Center for a pickpocketing conviction. During her incarceration she learned she was HIV positive though she did not know the source of the infection – Haslip was both a sex worker and the recipient of a blood transfusion prior to her incarceration.[2] While incarcerated Haslip served as a law librarian and became well known by other incarcerated women.[1] After observing terrible conditions for HIV positive women inside the prison – including segregation of HIV positive women to a decrepit infirmary unit – and the high degree of misinformation surrounding AIDS, Haslip co-founded ACE inside the prison in 1988 with other incarcerated women including Kathy Boudin and Judith Alice Clark to provide accurate education on living with HIV.[3][4]

AIDS Advocacy

Two weeks after her release from prison in 1990, Haslip broke her probation and joined women from

New York Times following the decision to expand eligibility, Haslip stated, "I am, and have been, a woman with AIDS despite the C.D.C. not wishing to count me. We have compelled them to."[2]

Haslip also continued her work with ACE and founded a companion organization – ACE-OUT to assist formerly incarcerated women with AIDS navigate housing, medical care, and other elements of life after incarceration.[2] She is prominently featured in the short video project I'm You, You're Me: Women Surviving Prisons, Living with AIDS in which she discusses her work a law librarian at Bedford Hills and the challenges of reentry after incarceration for women with AIDS.[6] She collaborated with the producers Debra Levine and Catherine Gund on the project to ensure it represented perspectives of the women organizing and participating in ACE-OUT.[1]

Death

Haslip died of complications from AIDS on December 2, 1992, in Manhattan.[7] As the CDC’s expanded definition of AIDS became active in January 1993 she was not officially registered by the government as dying of AIDS.[1]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Navarro, Mireya (3 December 1992). "Conversations: Katrina Haslip; An AIDS Activist Who Helped Women Get Help Earlier". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
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  5. ^ McGovern, Theresa (1994). "S.P. v. Sullivan: The Effort to Broaden the Social Security Administration's Definition of AIDS". Fordham Urban Law Journal. 21 (4): 1092. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  6. ^ Gund, Catherine; Levine, Debra (27 June 2018). "I'm You, You're Me (1992)". Aubin Pictures. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Katrina Haslip Dies; AIDS Worker Was 33". The New York Times. 3 December 1992. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
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