Once upon a time, I thought and felt crazy to use the word "coming out of the closet.” Yes, I did all I could do to come out of shame, lies, agony, despair, and beat stigma caused by living with HIV for many years. In actual fact I felt cured way...
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Blogging is something I've considered doing for a while however I didn't think it'd be this difficult. My name is Masonia, meaning "She Leads". However, somewhere along the way I got lost I think, maybe I was confused and got stuck or maybe I just...
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I feel my most safest when I'm in an airplane amongst the clouds In the sand at the foot of an ocean or near flowing water With my boyfriend With my children Sometimes with my mom I feel safe when I dance I feel safe when I read books I feel safe...
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There are things that people may not recognize about me because they've just started getting to know me in the last 8 years
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Learn the most common myths – and realities – about HIV: treatment, tests, transmission, and more.
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The Black AIDS Institute (BAI) is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on Black people. Founded in May of 1999, the Institute’s mission is to stop the AIDS epidemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black leaders...
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Aprender los mitos más comunes - y las realidades - sobre el VIH: tratamiento, pruebas, transmisión y más.
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I absolutely hate taking medicine. Especially this HIV shit. They told me at the beginning that I would have to take medicine everyday.
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When I was a child, 5 or 6 years old, we lived on the banks of the Tennessee River. I couldn’t swim so I had to wear a life jacket anytime I wanted to go by the water.
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Seven years ago today I met the man that would become both the best and worst memories, and love, I have known to date.
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I have made a few mistakes in my life. Who am I kidding? I have made MANY mistakes in my life. And I ain’t even been alive that long.
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“I still have a dream,” said Martin Luther King, “it is deeply rooted in the American Dream.”
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I have been positive for two years now and public for one. See, I exposed my status on Facebook live and I went viral, literally.
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By now I’m sure we’ve all seen the news about the Supreme Court ruling allowing the transgender military ban to take effect, a policy imposed on America by the trump administration via tweet in July 2017.
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I educate about HIV everyday and in every way, and still it’s some who say, “It doesn’t take all of that and people are going to do what they want to do. You can’t save the world!" Yep, you are right, people are going to be people and no one can...