HIV discrimination

Dear Healthcare Provider, I know my HIV medication is keeping me alive. I know how important it is. I know it's working against my virus and keeping me from getting sick. But like most people I had to...

¡NO estoy tratando de ofender a nadie ya que todos saben que tengo peces más grandes para freír!

I am NOT trying to offend anyone as you all know I got bigger fish to fry!

There are days when I really wonder why it is so hard to educate people about HIV.

One day in 2013, I wrote these words in a journal, "Don't you wish a rapper would offer up a hip-hop version or critique of the latest Supreme Court antics surrounding the Voting Rights Act?" After...

I don't even want to do this. I'm so selfish which makes understanding me difficult. I am also selfless to a fault. I draw lines. So enough about me. I wrote a blog a while back. Since I was nineteen...

I am #HIVpositive since 2005 due to medical negligence. I have been stigmatised, discriminated, hated, shunned and even ostracised. All because of my SILENCE. And FEAR.

Each day we make thousands of tiny decisions that impact our day, our week, our year, and maybe even our life.

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a community town hall meeting hosted by a local AIDS organization via Facebook live.

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." –Toni Morrison. When I ran across this quote I felt it was appropriate to tie into what I experienced during this year's AIDSWATCH, because it...