About Jim Pickett

And the Band Plays On (September/October 2008)
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Snake Oil for Meth Addiction -- Only 15k (March/April 2008)
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Deliverance: Deeply Disturbed
(November/December 2007)
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Big Deal: Offering Advice to a Friend Who Tests Positive (September/October 2007)
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Bi Bi Baby: I Need Help (July/August 2007)
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The Burning Bowl: An Rx for the Spiritual Health of the AIDS Advocacy Movement (March/April 2007)
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Shit Storm: Treatment Trauma With No Umbrella (September/October 2006)
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"Sissster Chrissstian": Is Jim Pickett too Vulgar for a Faith-Based AIDS Conference? (March/April 2006)
Pickett recounts how he was invited -- and then uninvited -- to an AIDS conference in Indiana sponsored by World Vision International, where he was to speak about HIV prevention
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"HIV Does Not Define Me" (November/December 2005)
Jim Pickett has embraced his role as an HIV-positive public speaker, but he loathes people who treat him like little more than a walking virus
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"Squat Close to the Load," and Other Safety Tips (September/October 2005)
Attendees at a U.S. government-run HIV prevention conference received a free safety manual with all sorts of useful advice, but nary a condom or lube packet was in sight
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Oh if Only (July/August 2005)
If only we always did what we were "supposed" to, what a different world it would be, Jim Pickett writes
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Work Your Action (March/April 2005)
Don't rely on activists and AIDS organizations to defend your beliefs; watch your own back, Jim Pickett urges
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Marathon Man (November/December 2004)
At the age of 38 and living with HIV since 1995, Jim Pickett prepares to run his first Chicago Marathon
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Sorry, Doom-and-Gloomers, but It Doesn't Always Suck to Live With HIV (September 2004)
Living with HIV has its ups and its downs -- so why do so many people in HIV prevention make it sound like a living hell?
From HIV Stops With Me

Mind the Gap: Microbicides for the Coot and the Boot (July/August 2004)
Both gay men and straight women "must ask for, no -- demand, Booty Butter"
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Phat (March/April 2004)
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DHIVA (September/October 2003)
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Had A Great Time, Wish I Was There (Summer 2003)
Pickett talks about his life on HAART
From AIDS Community Research Initiative of America

Casualties of War (May/June 2003)
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Getting to Know You (March/April 2003)
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Can You Feel What I Feel? (January/February 2003)
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It Ain't Rocket Science (November/December 2002)
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Seven's Up (September/October 2002)
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Fatty Acid (July/August 2002)
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Act the Fuck Up! (May/June 2002)
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Love Stinks (January/February 2002)
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My Greatest Hits, or How to Be a Moulin Rogue (November/December 2001)
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A Work in Progress (September/October 2001)
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A Crisis Obscured (July/August 2001)
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Rising Above the Pain (May/June 2001)
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Day and Night, Night and Day and Night (March/April 2001)
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Slip Sliding Away -- The Truth About Safe Sex Among AIDS Activists (January/February 2001)
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To Die For (November/December 2000)
For Jim Pickett, confronting his own mortality was the hardest part of adjusting to his HIV status
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Give Us Morality or Give Us Death (September/October 2000)
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Baby's Got the Red Ribbon Blues (July/August 2000)
The red AIDS ribbon has outlived its usefulness, Jim Pickett says -- and it's tacky, too
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Stop the Drugs -- A Personal Détente (May/June 2000)
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Strawberry Pills Forever (March/April 2000)
Jim Pickett provides some tongue-in-cheek advice for the pharmaceutical industry on developing new drugs
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AIDS in the Twilight Zone (March/April 2000)
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (September/October 1999)
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