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Saturday, October 5, 2019 6:00 - 9:00pm Fowler Museum 308 Charles E Young Drive North Los Angeles, CA 90024 via Fowler Museum at UCLA A Girl Like Me blogger Porchia Dees featured in the opening night celebration of "Through Positive...

October 3, 2019 2:00pm EDT via Latino Commission on AIDS U=U is a growing international movement to share the fact that people living with HIV on treatment with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV to sexual partners. U=U is...

via Open Society Foundations The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The fellowships are part of a larger...

A mother and daughter should be close. The relationship should be a loving and nurturing one. A mother should be equated with the words safety and trust. These were not my experiences, but despite that I was loved. My mother...

Attention and with urgency! A dear friend and brother of mine that I won't mention told me this racist, horrific incident in South Beach today in the post office!!!!! A white woman with blonde hair and green eyes, "very elegant"...

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...