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I attended our nation's first National Trans Visibility March for our community; our TGNC youth are looking for inspiration and role models. Those living in conservative rural areas, where they feel there's no one like them in the world. I...

It's hard to explain how my feelings are towards having HIV. I try not to think about it in a negative way and yes, plenty of people say it's not a death sentence like people try to make it seem...

I was born into trauma and trauma has followed me throughout my life. While my mother was pregnant with me she was beaten by my father with a chair. She wore glasses after that incident and I was born paralyzed...

"What's changed?" is a question I've asked myself at least once every day since the diagnosis. What has changed about me? My answer is always the same: I'm the same ole Destiny. But in all reality, I am not the...

Congratulations to WRI member Celeste Watkins-Hayes on writing and publishing such a powerful piece (excerpted and linked below) in The New York Times! Her book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, which she was kind enough...

Living with HIV for the past 12 years has been full of ups and down. I been through periods of loneliness, periods of anxiety and depression, and periods of feeling left out. I feel that I have been through it...

I am an African American woman living with HIV. I have been living with HIV since 1993 and diagnosed in January 1994. I am 49 years old. I have two children, a daughter age 25 and a son 20. I...

I'm determined not to let HIV depression get me down. I'm determined not to let HIV exhaustion get me down. I'm determined not to let HIV stigma make me bitter and closed off. The anxiety of disclosure will not make...

Princess Diana once said. "HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it." When people hear "HIV" they automatically think of AIDS, but they need to...

I remember the first 10 minutes after I hit upload from my phone to tell the whole world of YouTube that I had been living with HIV. I was so nervous, happy, scared and free. I know - a lot...