My Community

I absolutely hate taking medicine. Especially this HIV shit. They told me at the beginning that I would have to take medicine everyday. But damn y'all ... I really gotta take medicine everyday. It's like this anchor that reminds me...

Farah Jeune's portrait of Community Advisory Board member, Masonia Traylor . Click here to see more of Farah Jeune's portraits from her project, HIV Beautiful: Art for Social Change.

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, one night...

Seven years ago today I met the man that would become both the best and worst memories, and love, I have known to date. Sitting at a meeting, our eyes locked and we were connected from that moment forward. Today...

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. To read this blog in its entirety, click here.

“I still have a dream,” said Martin Luther King, “it is deeply rooted in the American Dream.” Earlier in history, Henry David Thoreau was quoted as saying: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined!”...

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. I exposed myself because I felt like I was hiding, hiding a part of me...

Farah Jeune's portrait of Community Advisory Board member, Wanona Thomas . Click here to see more of Farah Jeune's portraits from her project, HIV Beautiful: Art for Social Change.

Farah Jeune's portrait of Community Advisory Board member, Vickie Lynn . Click here to see more of Farah Jeune's portraits from her project, HIV Beautiful: Art for Social Change.

Farah Jeune's portrait of Community Advisory Board member, Tiommi Luckett . Click here to see more of Farah Jeune's portraits from her project, HIV Beautiful: Art for Social Change.