User:Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco

Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco; Chilean-born in Santiago in 1963, he is a teacher, a Canadian AIDS activist, writer and community based social science researcher.

After receiving a degree in Licenciatura en Ingles at Universidad de Santiago in 1984 he became a high school teacher. Ibanez-Carrasco migrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1985 and completed a BA in Communications, and a Masters and PhD degrees in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.

Ibáñez-Carrasco's novel “Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years” was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2001 and nominated for the Regional Commonwealth Prize in 2002. His 1990s short stories were collected in “Killing Me Softly/Morir Amando” (Suspect Thoughts Press 2004) and his non-fiction has appeared regularly in U.S. and Canadian queer literary circuit. In 2004, he co-edited “Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public” (with Erica Meiners, RoutledgeFarmer). During 2007, he wrote a monthly column for XTra West queer newspaper in British Columbia. His fiction and non-fiction chronicles the lives of gay men living with AIDS/HIV from the insider's perspective of his experience living with HIV since 1996.

From 2004 until 2009 Ibáñez-Carrasco was a faculty member in the creative writing individualized BA program at Goddard College, Vermont; in British Columbia, between 2003 and 2009, he was the provincial community-based researcher for AIDS service organizations.

In 2009, Ibáñez-Carrasco moved to Toronto where he is closely associated with the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR) and received the CWGHR Award of Excellence in HIV and Rehabilitation in 2010.

In 2014, Ibanez-Carrasco's memoirs titled "Giving It Raw: Nearly 30 Years with AIDS" was published by Transgress Press.