Tag: nyhaad
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VICTORIA ARELLANO
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Today is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD). It is a day to educate our communities about the impact of HIV and AIDS on young people. We are honoring Victoria Arellano, a Mexican trans woman living with AIDS, who died at the age of 23 years-old while in…
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José | Durham, NC
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Happy NYHAAD! I know there are days where the oppression feels like glue. Somewhere, somebody, is melting that glue with sex, with substance, with story, because it’s spring during a pandemic, and there is a body here that makes heat when you rub it. I praise science & brujeria. I…
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HYDEIA BROADBENT
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Last august, Hydeia Broadbent celebrated her 35th birthday. this wasn’t just a milestone but a testament to the sheer determination of life and hope. Diagnosed with HIV at three years old, hydria was not expected to survive past age five. And in 1987, years almost a decade before the breakthrough…