My Community

via National AIDS Memorial Grove We are pleased to announce that our Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship application period opens March 1, 2019. Last year we awarded a total of $50,000 to ten students and intend to award at least...

Blogging is something I've considered doing for a while however I didn't think it'd be this difficult. My name is Masonia, meaning "She Leads". However, somewhere along the way I got lost I think, maybe I was confused and got...

via NMAC The 2019 Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit Website is Open! We know what you're thinking. The Summit isn't until December! That's true. But it's never too early to get a start on your plan to attend this year's Summit...

via The Wing Scholarship Program The Wing Scholarship Program supports individuals committed to the advancement and demarginalization of women and girls. Together we are focused on disrupting the old systems in place, and inspiring a new generation of women who...

I feel my most safest when I'm in an airplane amongst the clouds In the sand at the foot of an ocean or near flowing water With my boyfriend With my children Sometimes with my mom I feel safe when...

There are things that people may not recognize about me because they've just started getting to know me in the last 8 years but I noticed that there are parts of my heart that seem to have hardened. The freedom...

I absolutely hate taking medicine. Especially this HIV shit. They told me at the beginning that I would have to take medicine everyday. But damn y'all ... I really gotta take medicine everyday. It's like this anchor that reminds me...

Farah Jeune's portrait of Community Advisory Board member, Masonia Traylor . Click here to see more of Farah Jeune's portraits from her project, HIV Beautiful: Art for Social Change.

When I was a child, 5 or 6 years old, we lived on the banks of the Tennessee River. I couldn’t swim so I had to wear a life jacket anytime I wanted to go by the water, one night...

Seven years ago today I met the man that would become both the best and worst memories, and love, I have known to date. Sitting at a meeting, our eyes locked and we were connected from that moment forward. Today...