Self-Care & My Struggle with Self-Pleasure
My Struggle with Self-Pleasure
Self-care is an act of becoming
by George M. Johnson
Earlier this year I wrote a story disclosing my HIV status to the...
CBO & ASO & HIV Burnout
Community-based organizations and AIDS service organizations have been staples in the fight against HIV for going on thirty-plus years. They were some of the...
Why I Build Upon AIDS Activism’s Past
The Stone Refused
Why I build upon AIDS activism's past
by George M. Johnson
I was recently watching a video that I was tagged in by a...
Dating in the Deficit
Deficit: the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small.
If perfect dating as whole were $1.00, then dating as a...
The Writing on the Wall
Have you ever been told about how there are usually tons of “red flags” before something bad or adverse happens? That you can see...
On Celebrating the “Posiversary”
In my family we celebrate everything. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, birthdays (sometimes even months after the birthday has occurred LOL)....
Listen Closely
It’s September 18, 2015, about 2 a.m. and I am tired as hell. When this day started, I never thought it would end with...
Dear CDC: Let’s End the Epidemic by Addressing Racial Disparities
Dear CDC
Let's end the epidemic by addressing racial disparities
by George M. Johnson
It’s been thirty-plus years of the HIV epidemic and although we are nowhere...
Stigmatizing Sex
While watching an episode of 2 Broke Girls the other day, the topic of sexually transmitted infections came up as the focal point of...
The Side Effects
It’s been about four years since I started taking HIV medications and I absolutely hated it. I remember when I first started taking the...