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Aisha Diori | |
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| Born | 8 September Africa, West Africa |
| Occupation | Community Mobiliser, Special Events Director, Educator, Performer, Talk Show Host, Comedian, Event MC, (Women's Face), and "Iconic Mother" in Ball culture. |
| Period | 1990's to present |
| Notable works | Mother of the House of Iman, an all-women's House, founder of the Kiki Ballroom Scene: an HIV prevention intervention for LGBTQ youth in Ballroom culture, House of Prodigy Godmother, and Overall Mother Latex through GMHC. Events Specialist un all facets of events, Cultural Commentator, Pan Africanist, Performer, Cultural Influncer, and Host Mina TV Africa. |
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Aisha Diori (born 8 September in Africa, West Africa) is an Events Director, Community Mobiliser, HIV/AIDS Preventionist, educator, Talk Show Host, Event MC, Pan-Africanist, and has been named "Iconic Mother" in Ball culture.[1][2] Her father is Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, a Nigerien political leader and business person, and her mother is Betty Graves, the first Ghanaian / Nigerian woman to own a travel agency in Nigeria.
Diori holds a Bachelor of Arts in advertising and marketing communications from Fashion Institute of Technology where she graduated magna cum laude. Diori's HIV prevention work with LGBTQ youth in Ball culture, an LGBT subculture, has been influential in the field of public health.[3] She is the founder of the KiKi Ballroom scene[4] and is considered an expert in engaging this historically difficult-to-reach population.[5][6][7][8] Her expertise is requested for grants and program development,[9][10][11] and research and curriculum development.
Diori worked at the Hetrick-Martin Institute as a Director of Health and Wellness,[12] and is the Mother of the House of Iman, a WBT (women, butch and transgender) people house in New York City.[13] In February 2014, Diori joined the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem as Special Events Manager, and continues her involvement with LGBTQ people in the House ball community. In Aug 2018, Diori joined the MINA TV AFRICA in NYC as a host for their Award Winning ABS Show covering trending news in Africa and the World.
- ^ Ryan Joseph Photography, House and Ballroom Culture Photography.
- ^ Marlon Bailey, Constructing home and family: How the Ballroom community supports African American GLBTQ youth in the face of HIV/AIDS. Special Issue on LGBTQ people of color. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 21, 171–188.
- ^ The Institute For Gay Men's Health, AIDS Project of Los Angeles (APLA) and Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), "What's Safe to you?" Safer Sex can mean different things to people. Archived 16 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ See NYC's Ballroom Culture's History.
- ^ Suze Myers, "Let's Have a Kiki: Drag Balls Still Thrive in Manhattan." Archived 13 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine, the eye: the magazine of the columbia daily spectator, 2012.
- ^ Marcus Brock of GLAAD, 'House-Mothers': Motherhood Redefined for LGBT Youth. Ebony.com, 11 May 2012.
- ^ Ana Oliveira, GMHC 2004 Annual Report.
- ^ Edgar Rivera Colón, Getting life in two worlds: power and prevention in the New York City House Ball community. Rutgers University, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009.
- ^ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Popular Opinion Leader (POL) A Community AIDS/HIV Risk Reduction Program for Gay Men Archived 9 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ mPowerment Project, HIV prevention program that is designed to address the needs of young gay and bisexual men.
- ^ "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's AIDS Institute Individual- and Group-level HIV Prevention Interventions". Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ Hetrick-Martin Institute Staff, Aisha Diori. Archived 23 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ House of Iman past events.