Anne-christine d’Adesky is an author of four books, award-winning journalist, public intellectual, activist, and documentary filmmaker. She is the founder-director of the Stop The Coup 2025/Resisting Project 2025, an anti-Project 2025 education and reporting platform launched in late 2023. She is an expert on global HIV, health, and LGBTQ topics.

Her books include The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris (2017), Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in Post-Quake Haiti, Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS, and Under the Bone, a novel set in post-Duvalier Haiti. Her 2017 memoir was a finalist for a Lambda Literary award. She was recognized among the top “100 to Watch For” HIV leaders from POZ magazine. She received the inaugural Award of Courage from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, for her global reporting and public information about HIV/AIDS. 

D’Adesky has covered social justice and global health issues, both as a staff reporter and independent journalist. She specializes in long-form narrative reporting. She served as Senior Editor in charge of HIV coverage for OUT for five years, and reported on the global AIDS epidemic for, among publications: The Advocate, POZ, The Nation, and The Village Voice, with editorials in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. The San Francisco Examiner nominated her front-page electoral and human rights reporting for a Pulitzer Prize. 

She is also co-director/co-producer of Pills, Profits, Protest, a feature-length documentary on the global AIDS movement that aired on US Showtime for a year, and has had global reach. It served as a companion to her 2004 global AIDS book.

She currently covers the emerging political resistance to right-wing authoritarianism at the biweekly Resisting Project 2025 Substack, read by 25,000+ people, and A is for Autocracy, a witness journal. From 2023-2024, she dissected Project 2025 and wrote Special Reports, summaries, briefs, and co-produced a Community Organizer’s Toolkit to fight Project 2025 used by nonprofits for community mobilization. She helped produce a Project 2025 video shorts campaign that reached millions.

D'Adesky created the Bodies On The Line and The Kiki HIV Reporting Scholarship projects focused on US writers and journalists lost to the AIDS epidemic. She was an early member of direct-action group, ACT UP and co-founder the 90s Lesbian Avengers, and launched the Bay Area Queer Anti-Fascist Network after the first Trump election. She leads community mobilizing work with Resisting Project 2025.

D'Adesky is based in Brooklyn.