Many of my thoughts land in a space of gratitude because my heart remains full that I get to meaningfully engage in work day-to-day that supports positive impact on the lives of women living with HIV.
For a long time, I thought silence was protecting me. I thought if I didn't say something out loud, maybe it wouldn't feel real.
I educate the world to keep the disease at bay/ But education is lost in the politics of today/ Yet more and more minds I continue to sway/ HIV will never define me...
Joining this blog will allow me to connect with other women living with HIV/AIDS, contribute to an important community, and continue using my voice to encourage, support, and advocate for others.
Rio reminded me that ultimately the HIV response is powered by people from the many local HIV communities who refuse to disappear.
Check out The Well Project's A Girl Like Me LIVE!, an interactive, livestreaming series created to advance health and wellness education among women living with and vulnerable to HIV.
Sure I think about HIV, especially as an advocate in this field, but my life encompasses so much more than HIV. All of ours do.
My story feels like time travel, which is not only about machines or science fiction. Sometimes, it is about memory, longing, and dreams that refuse to die.
What if HIV prevention made sense to Black women?
While you're out getting high today, make sure you light one up or throw a dab down for the ones who died fighting for our right to be here in the first place.