HIV BORN 89-END STIGMA NOW CAMPAIGN

What would you do if you had HIV? Could you handle the pressure of when to tell your partner or partners, especially the risk of going to jail and being considered a murderer by some? Could you handle being repudiated for being honest from the moment a potential partner walks into your life? What is it like to live with one of the most talked about STD's of all time 5, 10, 15, or 23years down the line like myself? I'm writing this blog to provide you with answers to all of those questions, the good and the bad, the moments you want to cry, and the moments where you can sprint for joy because of what you have overcome. Does HIV stop you from attaining your aims?I'm here to tell you it does not, if you take cotrol of your life. The most arduous part of living with this illness is the Stigma or ignorance of other people when you reveal it (from not wanting to touch you, kiss you, share food, etc). I'm here to END THE STIGMA NOW. Join me. Fight with me and for me.

[bornhivpoz89]

#tbt #HappyBirthday to me I always got my 👅out #BirsdayBehavior 🎁🎈🎉🎊🎊🎈🎈🎁 Sidenote: Bae told me I got the magic tongue ♥🎩👅👀😈😳😩😈 😅😂😅. #DCChronicles

[bornhivpoz89]

#FentyxPuma choker & My #PersonalityInANutshell. Women love how silly, playful, & positive minded I am ~Bri. 🎂🍧🍩🍾🍷🍸🍹🍾🍦🍨🎁🏋🎁🎈🎉🎊#HappyBirthday To Me #27 #HIVborn #Happy #Undetectable #CollegeEducated #InARelationship #StillMuscular as F #OwnApartment #Blogger #HIVAdvocate #androgynous #tomboy #lesbian #LGBT #queer #gay #shoulders #boulders #muscles #gunz #gymrat #rebel #poz #hivpoz #bornhivpoz89

[bornhivpoz89]

#Repost via #bestpapsever @247papstv Doubting yourself leads often to self negligence or ignoring your own full potential. Life is short. You have to get out there and make life your bish @badgalriri would say 😅😅 #LoveYouRobzifYoureReadingThis. Really though, you are in charge of making your dreams realities. How you think about yourself and the effort you put into yourself as well as the things you love to do is what will make your life #GREAT. Confidence along with skill and passin will take you very far. Every failure does not mean give up. It means try harder or figure out another way(s) to achieve what you want. If this involves people rather than things or careers, start keeping people and energy arounds you which supports as well as motivates you in the direction you need. #Confidence is key. Dont worry about age, naysayers, how horrible or dreadful your past was or the obstacles you are even currently facing. #KeepGoing #YouWillBeRewarded OneDaySoon ~Bri. #Trophies #PutPeopleAroundYouWhoSupportandLoveYou #motivation #inspiration #wisdom #love #selflove #quote #quotes #bornhivpoz #RobynInspiredAlways

[bornhivpoz89]

#HIV #AIDS #pozdotcom #news Pharmaceutical company #Gilead knew that #Truvada, a daily pill used as #PREP to prevent HIV negative persons from getting HIV by over 96% ( even without a condom)as well as an HIV treatment for HIV positive individuals, was more toxic than a similar much less toxic version made over 10 years ago. Gilead put its research for the much less toxic version to a stop and continued to manufacture Truvada in its harmful state instead of seeking approval of as well as encouraging everyone to take the much less toxic (side effects) version. This is heartbreaking because they truly only cared about profits and continued to EXPLOIT anyone who took the medicine for their own self gain, including HIV positive persons. 😑😑😡😵😞😞 #Source: https://www.poz.com/article/lawsuit-claims-gilead-delayed-release-less-toxic-version-hiv-med-tenofovir #disease #virus #health #sexuality #gay #LGBT #healthnews #sexualhealth #poz #HIVpoz #bornhivpoz89

[bornhivpoz89]

#FentyTrainer #RedAlert #throwback (few weeks ago) Learn to grip your accomplishments like its yours already. Your mind is your most powerful weapon. Believe it and watch your life transform ~Bri. ✊👊 Fun Fact #201 (Damn Already lol 😃😉): I love to eat chili even in hot weather. Fun Fact #202: I am surprised when a female asks me out because I usually make that move first (Papi ish lmfao 😅😅😂😼). Fun Fact #203: I think bowties are cute but I am more of a tie person😩😸😻😺 #androgynous #lesbian #LGBT #menstyle #tie #blackshirt #fashion #motivation #inspiration #wisdom #fitgirlsinspire #fitgirls #RihannaNavy #NAVYRDIE #shorthair #design #bluejeans #HIVpoz #poz #bornhivpoz89 #HIVPositiveandWinning

[bornhivpoz89]

Women love substance. They love balance internally as well as externally ~Bri. 😋 Fun Fact #198: A romantic dinner is one of my favorite ways to get to know a woman.🔥 Fun Fact #199: I like nights out as well as nights in watching movies cuddling, having rose petal baths, giving intimate masaages etc.💃❤📺👭🖐 Fun Fact #200: I really do not like to iron my clothes but I refuse to walk around with anything wrinkled 😅😅 #androgynous #lesbian #lgbt #WomenWhoLoveWomen #womenwithmuscles #girlswholift #girlswithmuscles #fitgirls #fashion #shorthair #biceps #shoulders #tie #FENTYxPUMA #thetrainer #red #guysstyle #swagg #RihannaNavy #rebel #G4life #NAVYRDIE ⚓ (at John F. Kennedy International Airport)

[bornhivpoz89]

#Repost via my #FB. #Fall in love with someone who truly gives you all the best in the world because you deserve it. @champagnepapi voice. 💘❤ #love #dating #wisdom #relationships #quotes #quotes #writing #motivation #inspiration #selflove #RihannaNavy

[bornhivpoz89]

#Repost via @greaterthanaids "HIV and Love" by me Born or not with the greatest illness known to man shouldnt stand Between the one heart that lands upon yours, Redesigns your spiritual tour, Gives you more of that fruit earth offers. Should you not feel, Should you not know what the steal of a deep kiss is like, Should you not finish expressing your story on this mic? Spread your arms in the sand like an eagle soaring with high demand. Your equality is real, Your body can still be devoured like a delicious meal. Undetectable, not transmitting it is protectable. All about me is lovable, When we cuddle, I can hold you close, Loving me doesn't have to be written by what most presume. Loving me without fear can resume ~Bri #poetry #writing #poem #art #writer #RihannaNavy #NAVYRDIE #HIV #poz #bornhivpoz89 #HIVPositiveandWinning

[bornhivpoz89]

#SmoothDownSunday SCREAMSS BIGGG #Gainz At this point I cannot think of myself as anything #normal. I never wanted to fit in. I love standing out. I love the compliments I get on a regular basis. I love the attention I naturally get from women and men. I am a #Beast at everything I do and I LOVE IT. #ThankYouAll for all your support not just on my body but on my mind, my soul, & my distinctive #aura. I am beyond blessed. 💪🤓🙏🙏💃#YallMakeamyLifeBetter #YallMakeMeBetter #androgynous #lesbian #LGBT #homo #RihannaNavy #NAVYRDIE #poz #HIVPoz #bornhivpoz89 #fitgirls #girlswithmuscles #muscles #shoulders #boulders #biceps #veins #vascularity #HIVPositiveandWinning "1 Minute Bio" by Me 👌👏👋 Highly functional, Squeezed out dysfunctional, Punctual on finding out things, Not impressed by pretty things, Character wins me over every time, No that is not a pickup line. Grind on my ambition. If you aren't whole you cannot be my addition. House and body immaculate like a breathtaking HGTV listing. Gifting you my knowledge and I am not speaking of just that degree from college. My life journey of learning, of turning broken coil into gold freshly boiled is frequent. Spiritually calm never tense. Checked by self reverence. Like a mist you've never breathed or witnessed. But the warmest to lay up against. Ideals of my mother layered gentically, Unforgettably a soul unmatched, An illuminated egg hatched since 1989, Glory be unto him, this world is mine. Fun Fact #192: I would take dinner in bed over breakfast in bed.🍗🍤🌮🌭🍕🍞 Fun Fact #193: I never came home after doing my homework on time and my mom hated it. #SorryMominHeaven 😣 Fun Fact #194: I love hot sauce, ranch, and lots of pickles on every sandwich I have. Yup you heard me right, NO MAYO lol 😅😋

[bornhivpoz89]

#Repost via @cdcgov #HIV #Facts 1st Statistic: HIV is not a gay disease. HIV is not even just transmitted via sex. My mother for example contracted it through shared intravenous drug utilization. When it was first brought to the world's attention it was transferred through blood transfusions. It still can be transferred through mother to child during birth (although rare nowadays in the U.S. since mothers are tested during prenatal care). Thus, yes women are impacted by HIV and should protect themselves by using a condom. Getting tested together is important but even if you both test negative unprotected sex is you trusting your partner to be honest with you about his or her sexual activities or remaining faithful to just you. 2nd Statistic: HIV is still often swept under the rug more so in #AfricanAmerican communities than any other community. My family did not want any of my family to know my mother had #AIDS. I did not even know I had #HIV until I was in my teens and again was told to tell no one. Of course I did not follow through on doing that and do not ever plan to again but many people with HIV do follow through on telling very few family members/friends if even that and concealing it from their sexual partners. #Stigma aka shame associated with having HIV or being connected to someone with HIV causes our African American gay men and heterosexual women to contract the virus in alarming numbers compared to other ethnic groups. We cannot be hush hush about HIV and change these astounding statistics. 3rd Statistic: I believe everyone should test for all stds every 6 months if you are engaging in any sexual activity, whether you are married, in a relationship, or single. Not enough of our sisters are being tested often. Stigma or shame plays a role in that. Also once a woman is diagnosed I am sure the medicine reminds her of being HIV positive, how hard she assumes dating with HIV will be, how her life as she once knew it or dreamed it is now over, etc. Keeping individuals who are compassionate, who unconditonally love and support you, and motivate you to do positive things as well as make positive steps is so salient in adjusting to a happy+fulf. life.

[bornhivpoz89]

#Fbf A text from a woman who I dated...Someone out there with #HIV or another #std needs to read this. People will still date you, even with HIV. There are people who will have sex with you without a condom too. Why on hells earth would someone do that? People are educated to know there is #PREP (a daily pill that HIV negative persons can take which offers up to 96% protection in preventing HIV transmission up to 96%). People are also educated to know that when an HIV positive person is undetectable (having too low amount virus in his or her blood to transmit it even without protection)there is 98% prevention. I was very excited to recieve these text messages. It meant acceptance, showing that she was really into me, and also educated on protecting herself without using regular protection aka condoms method. I appreciate this woman. We had our moment. @champagnepapi voice* I will always think she is an amazing woman because of this moment right here. #poz #HIVpoz #virus #retrovirus #rapitup #undetectable #stigma #FightTheStigma #AIDS #health #healthnews #sextalk #bornhivpoz89 #HIVPositiveandWinning

[bornhivpoz89]

Some people feel it does. Others do not. Some people freeze up, have a disappinted or disgusted look on their faces, while others compliment how strong you are, and ask questions about your experience living with it. I honestly used to feel it made me undateable (I mean I was raised to tell no one). Although I do not blame my family for that because they truly just wanted to protect me and give me the most normal worry free life possible. I used to feel they did the wrong thing and even though technically it was wrong, based on how people react in a very negative or disrespectful way I can understand why they just said NO. To anyone newly diagnosed or if you know someone who has HIV: HIV DOES NOT MAKE YOU UNDATEABLE. How you think about dating and falling in love is what you MUST CONQUER with this std or any std for that matter. If you think no one will want to sleep with you or that you are less of a person because of this, dating will suck. But if you think you are sexy, own it, go out and meet different people, be brave and say after a few dates I am HIV positive, you will empower yourself in some pretty sensational ways. I have never infected anyone. I take my meds. I say, be bold: "Pull out a condom smoothly. Say my medicine protects you also since HIV is so low in my blood it cannot transmit. I have it under control. And there are other preventative barriers we can take to make sure you never contract it. I really like you and I hope your interest in me does not change after this." If he or she rejects you after that, it is that person's choice. But you did the right thing and were OH SO BRAVE ABOUT IT!! 👏👏👏✊👌👌😍😎 I usually get a standing ovation and a yes. TRY IT. #ChangetheWayYouThink #PositiveVibesOnly ~Bri #HIV #AIDS #stds #std #sti #dating #relationships #mentality #perspective #FightTheStigma #HIVPoz #bornhivpoz89 #HIVPositiveandWinning

[bornhivpoz89]

#BirthdayBehaviour #OldSoulinAYoungBody 👑🎁🎂🎂🎉🎊🎉🎂💃💃💃#NavyRDie #BlackandWhiteStyle #G4life #rebel #inspiration #survivor Fun Fact #118: I love rapping & songwriting just as much as I love poetry. "Birthday #Freestyle" No stressing, Never 2nd guessing, How did I survive this long, Indefinite answers to that question, This soul balances hot and cold, Swole in physicality, Mature as phuck emotionality. My reality, This virus, That's all I've known. Daddy wasn't there to hold me ever when I was home. I never knew him. Single Mom statistical footprint. I never fit in with the other kids. Been a misfit. Determined tho like 20 rep weighted dips. Women still will do backflips for me tho. Talking bout the Skeletons in my closet, they already know. Nothing to hide on the low. Few woes, High off life with voluntary self control. Rising faster than NYC tolls. Darting for that middle spot like a straight arrow. RIP to my previous sorrows. They been dead already. Spread the confetti because I'm not just making it I'm taking it, Too 2015 heat wave real to be phaking it. These degrees are just a stepping stone. Like an artist's undertone. I'm not meant to be understood by most. When all else fails my spirit and perceptions keep me afloat. Momma I'm more than alright. Hang tight until you and I reunite. Inspired by love most when I write. And by Robyn whose essence leaves a mark on eveything in sight. Romantic oldschool like a typewrite. A fighter by all means Ending HIV Stigma, Life purpose dream. #Birthday I'm so grateful to be alive and able to accomplish every dream I lay in my path. Each footprint and fingerprint where I grip onto and walk across every DREAM is priceless and something soulfully which rejoicing in each time never gets old. #OntoTheNext *JayZ Voice* #androgynous #tomboy #lesbian #LGBT #homo #gay #queer #fitgirls #muscles #girlswholift #girlswithmuscles #RihannaNavy #G4life #rebel #inspiration #motivation #poet #poetry #writing #poem

[wnq-writers]

i think it’s brave i think it’s brave that you get up in the morning even if your soul is weary and your bones ache for a rest i think it’s brave that you keep on living even if you don’t know how to anymore i think it’s brave that you push away the waves rolling in every day and you decide to fight i know there are days when you feel like giving up but i think it’s brave that you never do

Lana Rafaela (via wnq-writers)

Never give up. Always fight back. Be passionate even through the agony. Find inspiration in nature, in children, love, people, architecture, good deeds others do for eqch other, etc. Keep moving forward because backwards is never an option.

[brklynbreed]

You can tell a lot about a person when things are bad. Actually I’m a firm believer that you don’t really know who you’re fucking with until times ain’t so peachy. When money is low and a person is still riding with you, nurture that relationship. If you have a falling out with a person and they maintain your secrets, cherish them. If a person truly fucks with you, hard times won’t determine their love, loyalty or respect for you.

[bornhivpoz89]

This is so true. Real love can withstand anything. It wont fold against the test of time or the circumstances. #Love #Friendship

[bornhivpoz89]

#HIV #AIDS #nytimes #news "San Francisco is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment" No one expects to get HIV. The initial shock of it makes you very melancholy. I was 9 or 10 when my mother told me. The gentleman in this article is 43. It's was tear jerking and scary to me as it was to him. But it's not something to be ashamed of. It doesn't mean your life is over and all your dreams have to crash when you find out you're infected. Blaming my mom wouldn't have ever helped me to accept this illness and live happy in spite of it. The same goes for Rafael and any other HIV or STD infected individual. Forgiving my mother before she died was one of the best feelings and decisions I ever made. Forgiveness really is healing. #Source: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/health/san-francisco-hiv-aids-treatment.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/ #disease #healthnews #health #stds #std #hivpoz #poz #sex #intimacy #sexualhealth #sexuality #rapitup #safesex #virus #retrovirus #inspiration #motivation #EndHIVStigmaNow #bornhivpoz89

[bornhivpoz89]

@badgalriri #Anti #poetry #art "If They Let Us" Just read the poem. It's soft but edgy. It kisses you but picks your brain. It whispers but then rebels. It's mental and spiritual. It's the bass of the drums and the sweet love of the violin. It's life as it is and the world of your own thoughts. It's RECOGNIZING THAT YOUR DIFFERENT BUT BEING ANTI SOCIETY IN CARING. #ItTakesMeHome Sidenote: You FIND INSPIRATION FROM THE BEST THINGS AND PEOPLE.That is PART of WHAT continues to BLOSSOM you as such an #Iconic artist and why YOU have done things/accomplished things that NO ONE ELSE HAS #KeepTakingRisks 😻😻😻🔥🔥🔥💨💨💨🔥🔥🔥🔥 #NeededThis #ThankYou Robyn and Chloe #WhatAWayToInspire #NavyRDie #RihannaNavy #FentyLife #StanLife #G4life #inspiration #wisdom #MentalPower 🌊👏👏👏💆💃💃💃📖🎨🎶🎯🎯