Steven w thrasher bio
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Steven Thrasher
American writer and editor
Steven William Thrasher (born c. [1]) is an American journalist and academic. In , 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. In , he won the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year award. His book The Viral Underclass was published in
Early life
[edit]Steven Thrasher was born circa in Ventura, California and grew up in Oxnard, California.[1] His parents, Margaret (d. ) and William "Bill" Thrasher (d. ),[2][3] were white and Black respectively, and left Nebraska to marry in Iowa in because Nebraska law at the time barred the marriage.[4]
Thrasher attended Oxnard High School where his father was a teacher.[4] He graduated in ,[4] then earned a BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[1]
Career
[edit]After graduating from Tisch, Thrasher worked as a script assistant on Saturday Night Live from , before working on the crews of several films including HBO Films' The Laramie Project.[1] Beginning in , he worked as an interviewer collecting oral histori
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Steven W. Thrasher
The Viral Underclass
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Oxnard native Steven Thrasher writes book on 'The Viral Underclass'
Author Steven Thrasher knew about AIDS before he knew about sex.
Though he did not come out as gay until his 20s, he remembered learning about Ryan White getting barred from middle school in the s for having AIDS. As a child growing up in Oxnard, he watched his parents participate in anti-apartheid protests and learned at an early age about the importance of engaging in social issues.
"There were these non-normative queer ways of being that I understood from activism and life in Oxnard," Thrasher said.
Thrasher, 44, currently works as a journalism professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Illinois, serving as the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting.
His new book, “The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide,” is out Tuesday and combines memoir and research to create a framework for understanding how viruses disproportionately affect populations, from HIV/AIDS to the COVID pandemic.
"I feel like I gravitated towards HIV and AIDS as a way to write about queer life,” Thrasher said.
The work is being published through Macmillan Publishers' Celadon Books division.
Born in Ventura and raised in Oxnard, Thrasher is the son