A stunning piece by The Well Project Consulting Editor Olivia G. Ford about Community Advisory Board member Gina Brown's commemoration of 25 years of living with HIV
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Going to AIDSWatch was a wonderful experience that I'm honored to have been a part of.
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My sweethearts… My loves… Boo… Bae… Elders… Legends… Heroes.
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Why we cannot forget? I remember when I was first diagnosed with HIV I learned about being undetectable. I was so excited about the word in itself. It meant I almost didn’t have it. I had also read about the stories pre-CDC stamp on the U=U campaign...
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When we were children, we learned all kinds of things. We learned things as vastly different as our different cultures, but one thing that was pretty much universal, was coloring. Coloring was a way to teach us our lessons in a fun way. We were given...
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A Girl Like Me has been named one of the best HIV blogs of 2019 by Healthline... "Healthline's best blog winners are a much-needed resource for those living with HIV."
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About 10 years ago I sat in a dorm room playing the words the man said to me a few hours earlier, "Your HIV test came back positive". What did that even mean? All I could think at the time was death. God, when will I die? Those were my thoughts. Here...
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I wonder. Then I just imagine. Refreshing. Shouting out what takes space in the mind or heart. I am much more special than you could imagine. My journeys, adventures, memories are mine. I am on my way to have a sleepover with Sissy. I love our time...
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There was a time when I didn't want to accept the things that God told me were in my future.
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The Well Project supported four women to attend and advocate at AIDSWatch 2019, the largest annual constituent-based national HIV/AIDS advocacy event.
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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.
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"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 defined my six years of HIV living with me. At this...
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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 doctors that, like we are suffering from the...
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AIDSWatch 2019 was my first AIDSWatch and let me start by saying I felt so honored to be presented the opportunity and able to share space with some very respectable and important people.