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Steven W. Thrasher
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Steven W. Thrasher is an American journalist and academic whose work examines HIV, social inequality, and the social structures shaping viral outcomes.
Biography
Steven William Thrasher is an American journalist and academic. In 2019, he became the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting and an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year award in 2012.
Thrasher's work examines the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV. His first book, The Viral Underclass, was published in 2022 and explores how social structures shape the spread and consequences of viruses. Drawing on stories of friends, activists, and teachers, it considers inequalities in people's ability to survive HIV, the novel coronavirus, and other viruses.
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Books by Steven W. Thrasher
Viral Underclass
The Viral Underclass examines how social structures and inequalities shape who survives viruses and how their effects are distributed. It draws on stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating HIV, the novel coronavirus, and other viruses.