Just thinking about how my mom didn't get to accomplish things in life. Dying from AIDS and leaving me to survive with the virus.
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." –Toni Morrison. When I ran across this quote I felt it was appropriate to tie into what I experienced during this year's AIDSWATCH, because it...
I am in the south; for now. With that move comes changes of all kinds and one of those for me is finding medical help and of course a new "infectious disease" doctor (which I hate that they call our...
So I was talking to an acquaintance about the dating pool, age (ugh), deal breakers and dating overall.
One day I was sitting in my room, and I began to cry. Like why me why me. I’m the one that’s living with HIV. I have 5 other siblings, that don’t even have to deal with the hurt the pain not even the...
A few months ago, I lost a really close friend, or at least a person who I thought was my friend. All behind a conversation this person was having in front of me with one of their other friends in regards to HIV and STIs.
I recently came across this news for an upcoming book launch: It has been over 30 years since the onset of the global AIDS epidemic and advances in biomedical research have led to the discovery of...
Growing up in the hood in South West Atlanta was one of the hard things for me, especially being HIV-positive.
I have been undetectable of the illness since 2006; except for the stigma and unkind people that leave evident scars on my mental health.
What do you know about the truth? Seriously, I'm asking. What's true for you? How do you define truth?