Have you ever felt invisible? As a child I felt invisible. In my home there were just three of us: my mother, my brother, and me. My parents divorced when I was three years old. My brother had health problems...
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This was my first time attending the USCHA conference in DC. This year's theme was "A Love Letter to Black Women". When I found out about this conference earlier this year, I said, I don't know how I'm getting there...
I would like to tell you about a very special conference to me; it's called Positive Living and it's hosted by an organization called Oasis Florida. I've been coming to this conference since 2015. I remember being invited by my...
MY GIRLS! I can't explain the connection and the happiness I feel when I'm around them. When I share space with them, I feel heard and held and so effortlessly it comes naturally for me to do the same for...
This is the second time I've been able to attend USCHA and oddly enough, both trips followed a significant event in my life... I often refer to USCHA as the Grammys of HIV Conferences. With 4,000 people in attendance it...
Last year at USCHA I stood in a room and said, We are not long-term survivors, but we are LIFETIME SURVIVORS. Never would I have thought that by me saying that name, that term, a year later I would be...
Oh dear melanin melanated skin beautiful without and beautiful within they could never comprehend what it's like to be a man or wo/man hold on let me make this make sense they said we came from the man rib but...
We all have that one thing in common. The person we were before diagnosis and now as a +Supergirl. There's that one experience that only we know how it feels. That first time we looked eye to eye with ourselves...
My name is Harmony Rey Zorio (formerly Connie Rose) and I was living in Indiana during the time I found out I was positive - in a small farming community snug in the hip of the bible belt. I was...
Diagnosed in 1987 in US Navy basic training at 22 years old, making me currently a 36 year survivor. Discharged with no benefits and already suffering from multiple previous traumas, I spent the next 35 years struggling to have the...
