My Community

via San Diego Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) - Join us at the Get Activated: Standing Up for Community in Response and Research Town Hall in San Diego, CA

Rio reminded me that ultimately the HIV response is powered by people from the many local HIV communities who refuse to disappear.

I lived in secrets and lies for far too long and it caused heartbreak for everyone.

Jyoti Dhawale stands in the long lineage of people who refuse silence. For more than 20 years, she has lived openly with HIV in a society where stigma still tries to shape destiny.

Beauty and self-care spaces should be sanctuaries, but for many women living with HIV, they can become sites of fear of stigmatization.

Beauty and self-care spaces should be sanctuaries, but for many women living with HIV, they can become sites of fear of stigmatization.

It's really not easy to be transgender, There's little reward and even less splendor, Just social hate and judgement abounds, Where facts and truth and compassion dumbfounds...

At 48 I look back at my life and it's clear that the only reason I'm standing here with my Beeb and NuNu is because Jesus literally has saved me. From being a victim of multiple sexual assaults, drug addiction...

Registration is still open for the Grace Project National Conference for Women Living with HIV, taking place August 21–23, 2026, at the Westin Dallas Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Join women from across the country for a powerful weekend...

Sure I think about HIV, especially as an advocate in this field, but my life encompasses so much more than HIV. All of ours do.