Growing up Poz and trying to follow American Society’s guidelines for dating and hooking up has been extremely difficult. The guidelines that we follow as a society in regards to dating and having sex weren’t created for people with HIV in mind. They are not inclusive of a girl like me. Truthfully, I started experiencing my first real feelings of exclusion from the rest of society when I started becoming interested in dating and learning about sex. Initially, when I first started learning about HIV, I thought that I would never be able to have sex. The first person to talk to me about HIV and...
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Porchia Dees was born HIV positive in 1986 in San Bernardino, CA. At the time there were no HIV medical specialists in her area so she had to be transferred all the way to Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, where she received pediatric HIV medical care. Her pediatrician didn’t think she would live to see her 5th birthday but she is now 32 years Strong. Porchia graduated from Pacific High School in 2005, and was accepted directly into the University of California, Riverside. She finished with a BS in Anthropology on Dec of 2014. She worked for two years as an EIS Case Manager/Outreach...