activism, advocacy

¡Estoy tan cansada del VIH y SIDA!

I am so tired of HIV and AIDS! I hate to play victim and have a pity party cause I know it could be worse

My name is Courtney. I am 36 years old and from New Jersey.

Going to AIDSWatch was a wonderful experience that I'm honored to have been a part of.

About 10 years ago I sat in a dorm room playing the words the man said to me a few hours earlier, "Your HIV test came back positive". What did that even mean? All I could think at the time was death...

I wonder. Then I just imagine. Refreshing. Shouting out what takes space in the mind or heart. I am much more special than you could imagine. My journeys, adventures, memories are mine. I am on my way...

There was a time when I didn't want to accept the things that God told me were in my future.

"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...

I am in the south; for now. With that move comes changes of all kinds and one of those for me is finding medical help and of course a new "infectious disease" doctor (which I hate that they call our...

AIDSWatch 2019 was my first AIDSWatch and let me start by saying I felt so honored to be presented the opportunity and able to share space with some very respectable and important people.