The Well Project medical editor Isabella Ventura, RN, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, and community advisory board member Katie Willingham, attended the virtual gathering of The International Workshop on HIV and Transgender People in December 2021 and reported on compelling takeaways.
In December 2021 I attended my first International Workshop on HIV and Transgender People and it was a fantastic learning experience.
I honestly can't get over how entitled and disrespectful and disappointing some Black men continue to be. You have the audacity to call me your baby to get me in bed but would not defend me if I was called a man by one of your homeboys. You would laugh at my pain. You would hide it from me. You...
People of trans experience, particularly women and femmes of color, endure targeting for horrendous acts of violence and even murder in racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-Black societies around the world, including the US. This terrible fact gave rise to Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), on...
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be transgender? Living with HIV? In the rural South? Each of these issues alone can be challenging. Together, they are my reality—and it's crucial for healthcare providers to acknowledge them all when addressing my needs. Let's start with language, as it is...
Some women may feel that their dating and sexual lives are over once they receive a positive HIV diagnosis and this does not have to be true! Listen to this exciting conversation as these women navigate positive sexual health while living with HIV.
Arianna Lint and Katie Willingham tell their stories as part of National AIDS Memorial's oral history project.
This year's POZ 100 celebrates advocates who are TGNCNB. Special shout out to our amazing CAB members and A Girl Like Me bloggers Aryah Lester, Tiommi Jenae Luckett, Arianna Lint, and Katie Willingham receiving this well-deserved award!
I attended our nation's first National Trans Visibility March for our community; our TGNC youth are looking for inspiration and role models.
This is a grim reality for Black Trans women; that we may not live to see the end of the day. We receive attention (good and bad), but when it is bad, it can be deadly.
In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), The Well Project joined forces with partner organization, Positive Women's Network-USA, to present "What You Need to Know: HIV Among Transgender Women and Barriers to Care."
Have you ever experienced something that left you feeling and questioning, "Did that really just happen?"
I live in the basement: the lowest floor of the social systems we have here in America. Above me live the middle-class: not concerned with the trials of the lower class; the privileged: living in a bubble of supremacy; and the blessed: ignorant of truly fighting for acceptance into humanity. Proud...