Our Story, Our Time

It is a scary time to be living in a world where HIV funding could ever be up for debate. Thirty-six years removed from...

With new treatments, and advancements, HIV has now become a manageable and treatable chronic condition. From thirty pills a day, to thirty different pills...

I remember the days a few years back when I was nervous about reading about anything HIV-related. I would literally wait until the late...

This should go without saying, but in 2017 it seems that nothing can be left off the table in terms of what should and...

I hated my life. To the outside world, I was a twenty-eight-year-old mover and shaker. I was a young black man, with two degrees...

Many of us walk this earth as wounded warriors. Battered by the blows of society’s devaluation of the black body while we fight against...

It is easy to be something you are not when you don’t have the knowledge and understanding that anything else exists. It has taken...

Ready? Disclose Everything! No one reveals personal information at the drop of a hat, so why should we? by George M. Johnson I’ve recently had conversations and...

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...

Let me clear my throat for this one. For months I’ve been mulling over whether I wanted to write about this subject or if...