I HAVE HIV, CALL THE COPS!

Did you know that HIV affects your immune system and also your legal status? If you are accused of exposing someone to HIV, the state can charge you with a crime* (even when there is no transmission!). This includes a sex partner claiming you didn’t tell them that you are HIV+ All HIV+ people live with the fear being targeted by these laws. A surefire way to not be legally liable is not to know to your status. But this is counter-productive to our health and doesn’t prevent transmission. HIV+ people are not the threat, the criminal justice system is! * Assault Aggravated assault Sexual assault Aggravated sexual assault Administering a noxious substance Attempted murder Manslaughter Murder ///////////////////// Savais-tu que le VIH n’affecte pas seulement le système immunitaire mais aussi son statut légal? Si on t’accuse d’exposer quelqu’un au VIH, les autorités peuvent vous interpeler* (même lorsqu’il n’y a pas transmission!). Un partenaire sexuel peut ainsi t’accuser de ne pas avoir divulgué ton statut, ce qui demeure un acte criminel. Toute personne séropositive vit sous la menace d’être ciblée par ces lois. Une manière certaine de ne pas être tenu responsable c’est de simplement ne pas connaitre son statut, ce qui est contradictoire à la santé et à la prévention. La vraie menace, ce n’est pas les personnes séropositives, c’est le système de droit criminel! * Voie de fait Voie de fait grave Agression sexuelle Agression sexuelle grave Administrer une substance nocive Homicide Homicide involontaire

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Featured on the final half hour of the Monday February 10, 2014 podcast of 'The Monday Morning After' (download linked)

'Bloodwork' airs on the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month from 8:30-9:00am on CKUT 90.3fm

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ACT UP San Francisco + PosterVirus = <3

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YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME

Vincent Chevalier with Ian Bradley-Perrin

“Strictly speaking, nostalgia does not entail the exercise of memory at all, since the past it idealizes stands outside time, frozen in unchanging perfection. Memory too may idealize the past, but not in order to condemn the present. It draws hope and comfort from the past in order to enrich the present and to face what comes…”

In the slight of hand that weaves the short and long memories of our community with the artifacts that remain and the work we do to alter our near future into our present sense of the blurred lines of our “community,” let us not drop the adaptability that we have always used to keep up with the virus that adapts so well to us. It is not the remembering and it is neither the history, nor the material culture nor the valorization of the battles won and lost that impedes our movement forward, but rather the unpinning of our past from the circumstances from which the fights were born. It is this that makes light of the impetus to resist; the gentrification of our memories and our worshipping of idols whose miracles are forgotten.

Silence=Death but the white noise humming from your latest post is keeping me up at night. Flying in two dimensions, scrolling through virtual space, virtual time, random access memories referencing deep memory held in those you find inaccessible; beneath the porch light we’ve all been circling. Do not let the dregs of our history be your horse blinders as you move through today’s world because things are different now as they were different then. Allow the history to be real and tethered to a time and place and reason such that the output is responding to today and is ready for tomorrow. Let the past sleep some such that it can be more present the choices you make on reality, not the reality itself. “Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind and dreaming ahead. At least I think that’s so.”

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Avram Finkelstein of Gran Fury and the Silence=Death Collective gives a shout-out to PosterVirus during is talk for the Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS at the Canadian Centre for Architecture tonight! 

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Kay Rosen tote bag #AIDSonGoingGoingOn and fierce pussy’s #4therecord stickers and poster for #VisualAIDS on DayWithoutArt

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NSFW TTYL AIDS JAIL ToolsForToday for FuckLaws, January, 2014

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Elliott Youden is a gay activist in Ottawa, Canada. Elliott has worked tirelessly for gay community in Ottawa, as well as being an advocate for people living with HIV. Elliott is currently facing criminal charges related to HIV disclosure for which he is innocent. He recently had court proceedings which resulted in a mistrial. Elliott is now asking for your help to off-set his legal fees. Details of his mistrial can be found here: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Mistrial+declared+activist+trial/9400359/story.html Elliott has been an advocate, educator and has been featured on two MTV Canada specials regarding HIV. You can watch his story here: http://www.mtv.ca/shows/losing-it/video/extras/mtv-presents-being-positive/1718266/0/0 http://www.mtv.ca/shows/1-girl-5-gays/video/season-3/1-girl-5-gays-ep3027-/1682562/0/3 Please support Elliott, every dollar helps!

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I have HIV, call the cops. Did you know that HIV affects your immune system and also your legal status? If you are accused of exposing someone to HIV, the state can charge you with a crime* (even when there is no transmission!). This includes a sex partner claiming you didn’t tell them that you are HIV+ All HIV+ people live with the fear being targeted by these laws. A surefire way to not be legally liable is not to know to your status. But this is counter-productive to our health and doesn’t prevent transmission. HIV+ people are not the threat, the criminal justice system is! 

* Assault Aggravated assault Sexual assault Aggravated sexual assault Administering a noxious substance Attempted murder 

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Take anger, fear, and death and turn it into action.

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