activism, advocacy

Dear friends, sisters in the struggle to be recognized for ourselves, helping one another, in this life experience that I’ve gotten to live, as a positive woman and also a Trans and Latina woman.

One day in 2013, I wrote these words in a journal, "Don't you wish a rapper would offer up a hip-hop version or critique of the latest Supreme Court antics surrounding the Voting Rights Act?" After...

My HIV advocacy journey has been twenty plus years in the making, and one I never thought I'd see. I contracted HIV 34 years ago and was very ill for many years. Death loomed over me for several years...

My grandson ran in his first Spartan race on Sunday, and as my eyes followed him, I thought how amazing this was that this could be a metaphor for all the challenges that so many of us have before we realize that we are all so unique

I am #HIVpositive since 2005 due to medical negligence. I have been stigmatised, discriminated, hated, shunned and even ostracised. All because of my SILENCE. And FEAR.

Each day we make thousands of tiny decisions that impact our day, our week, our year, and maybe even our life.

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a community town hall meeting hosted by a local AIDS organization via Facebook live.

Health is wealth is the age old saying. I think that saying means that the healthier you are the wealthier your body feels. It also reiterates that we have to do what's necessary to reach the "wealth"...

In the world full of darkness, be the #LIGHT (Tamso ma jyotirgamay) Just like my name "Jyoti" A ray of light, the ray of hope Stop putting your hopes into hands of human beings. They make the same...

¡Estoy tan cansada del VIH y SIDA!