Tag: HIV/AIDS
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How To Survive A Plague Again: The Denver Principles
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About two week ago, I did the very rare thing of going live on Instagram. I asked my comrade and my good, good gurlfriend Abdul-Aliy Muhammad to join me as we discussed “How to Survive A Plague…Again.” For about an hour and a half, Abdul and I talked about what…
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HIV and COVID-19: White Supremacy Is The True Parallel
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“Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.” Susan Sontag, Illness As Metaphor In December of 2019, a virus emerged in Wuhan, the capital city of the Hubei Province, located in China. This novel coronavirus was…
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VITO RUSSO
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people living with AIDS formed coalitions for each other years before the US present ronald reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS. people living with AIDS mobilized to feed, house, nurse, care, and fight for themselves and each other. they became their own researchers, lobbyists, and drug smugglers. and this was done before…
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How To Survive A Plague…Again: A Instagram Conversation
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On Thursday, March 26, 2020, Louie of Gran Varones will be joined by frequent GV contributor and co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative Abdul-Aliy Muhammad will have a live and public conversation on what is it like to be Black, Queer and HIV positive in a time when…
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La Cura Podcast Featuring Gran Varones Founder, louie ortiz-fonseca
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i am so happy to share this episode of Mijente‘s la cura podcast. i enjoyed chatting with podcast host francisca about gran varones, storytelling and growing up in the 1990s. y’all should check it out!
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THE B-52s
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i always knew i was gay. i don’t have a coming out story because i was always “out” or whatever that meant for a 13 year old in 1990. i didn’t begin to identify as queer until much later in my life. partly, because in 1990, i didn’t even know…
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My Dear Aunt Blanca
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blanca was the youngest of all my aunts. people called her sunshine because of her brightly dyed blonde hair. she was the tallest and most statuesque. she was also the most adventurous. looking back, she was probably the most hopeful. people thought she was naive. she just believed in the…
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When Stigma Goes Viral, We Lose. When Community Support Thrives, We F*ckin’ Win
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As history has shown as, stigma and misinformation always spreads faster. From phrases about COVID-19 such as “Chinese virus” and “Kung-Flu” to photos masked Disney Princess Mulan and of charts that calculate “cough counts”, COVID-19 is another public health epidemic that exposes the failures of our current systems and institutions.…
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Tiffany | Fort Lauderdale, Fl
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My sex positivity journey is still occurring! That’s my lesson. I couldn’t rely on the adults in my life to guide me or tell me how to date or navigate love because they were accustomed to traditional ways of mass toxicity when it comes to sex & love. (Sex) and…
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Quick History of how AIDS Ended AYDS, The Diet Supplement
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last week social media was abuzz with the “reports” that corona, the beer that i drink when i have too many long islands, was experiencing a financial hit because of the onset of the covid-19 (coronavirus). i wouldn’t be surprised if there was a small segment of the US population…
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KENNY GREENE
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it has been almost 20 years since the death of singer and prolific songwriter, kenny greene. sadly, his death was shrouded in hiv stigma and biphobia. kenny greene was the dynamic mastermind behind 90’s r&b trio INTRO. born in detroit, michigan, kenny, was inspired to put a trio together after…
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June | Philadelphia, PA
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I have always tried to inform people what it life was like behind bars as a transgender latina and as a hiv positive trans latina. people think that we are supported and we are not. we have to survive on our own in there just like we have to when…