Today April 18 marks my 31 year battle with #hiv! I never thought I would make it this far!
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It was pretty cold in Washington, but I knew I would see my brothers and sisters in the fight again and as usual I felt I was with my family!
Where do I start with this year of lessons and so much pain? 2018 started ok, although I never expected it to be so so hard, and I never thought that I would ever be this strong…but I am.
This is a blog about our immigration nightmare and what we have been suffering in silence since 2008. Where do I start this very hard blog to write? I guess from the beginning. Many people know I was in a very loving relationship with Li for 10 years. We had normal ups and downs, but we always had each other’s backs. We respected each other, and still do, and we will forever be family.
People were surprised to see me there! More than a conference, it is a family reunion and place to network and learn, but most importantly uplift each other. I have been dealing with a lot that I will talk about in my upcoming blogs... everything from my exes reality and one of the biggest reasons why we ended our 10 year relationship, losing my father who many have read about, and the mixed emotions I am feeling, having to move all at the same time and feeling pretty isolated because of the pain and grief I feel spiritually and trying to hold everything together alone for my very first time...
I made this video to discuss the importance of women living with HIV to participate in research that affects our lives. In order for women to receive care and treatment that works for us — our bodies and our lives — we need to make our voices and needs be heard. Women are often under-represented in HIV research and always working to get a seat “at the table”. One way we can improve this is by taking surveys such as this one — which is to find out what we would be willing (or not willing) to do in order to participate in HIV cure research. Many HIV cure studies so far have only had men...
Well, where do I start? I just got back from this conference of positive women leaders from all over the USA and the islands--the biggest network of women living with HIV in the USA! Thank you to The Well Project for always taking us women to these very important conferences! I also want to thank PWN for their hard work and making my birthday special!! Thank you, Krista, for my Bday cake. Vickie was upset because she thought I was not going to get it!!! And thank you to all of the amazing women that embraced me with so much love and compassion! I was very tired from so much travel and also had...
Where do I start? AIDSWatch, as many know, is a very important conference where us activists gather and advocate for our states.
Saben que siento!! En la vida tenemos que luchar! Soy un luchadora instintiva y por naturaleza. "No es mi culpa," odio las excusas! ¿Cómo puedes pedirme que luche por ti y por tu vida, y te pido que me ayudes a ayudarte compartiendo un video sobre la situación que estás viviendo en tu país y me dices que no por el taboo. ¡Maldita sea! Estoy jodidamente cansada del auto estigma y el estigma de las sociedades en cuanto al VIH!! Es una condición humana!! Mi respuesta a eso es seguir los pasos de Act Up NY con inspiraciones de como Peter Staley!!! Ellos no aceptaron la muerte! ¡De hecho lucharon...
You know I feel that in life we have to fight! I am an instinctual fighter by nature. "I can't help it," I hate excuses!! How can you ask me to fight for you and your life, and I ask you to help me help you by sharing a video about the situation that you are living in your country and you tell me no because of taboo. God damn it!! I’m fucking tired of this self-stigma and societies’ stigma on #HIV!!! It’s a freaking human condition!! My answer to that is to follow the steps of Act Up NY with inspirations of mine like Peter Staley!!! They didn’t accept death!!! In fact they fought to the death...