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We Will Liberate Us

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   A Statement from the Co-Executive Directors of Positive Women’s Network-USA on the 2024 General Election As we watch the 2024 election results unfold, it’s natural [...]

2024-11-06T18:01:18-05:00November 6th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Positive Women’s Newsletter – October 2024

Want messages like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   🗳 Voter Engagement Campaigns Underway in Three States! 🗳 PWN-USA has hit the ground running to get our communities out to vote this election [...]

2024-10-17T12:37:43-04:00October 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter – October 2024

#HIVResists September Monthly Policy Update

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🔥 Hot Topic: [...]

2024-10-07T11:12:39-04:00October 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists September Monthly Policy Update

#HIV Resists July Monthly Policy Update

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🗳 2024 Election [...]

2024-08-05T12:18:45-04:00August 5th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIV Resists July Monthly Policy Update

Positive Women’s Newsletter – July 2024

Subscribe to receive emails like this one from PWN directly in your inbox!   💜 Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement 2024 is Fast Approaching! 💛 PWN-USA invites everyone to join us for our 4th annual Celebrate [...]

2024-07-24T13:21:40-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter – July 2024

#HIVResists June Monthly Policy Update

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥 Hot Topic: [...]

2024-07-12T16:50:36-04:00June 27th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists June Monthly Policy Update

PWN Commemorates Juneteenth: Black Folks for Palestine

by Elena Ferguson and Sallie Thomas, in collaboration with all of PWN's Black staff members.June 19th, 2024 Today Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) commemorates Juneteenth, in recognition of the emancipation of Black people enslaved across the United States. Juneteenth is observed as [...]

2024-06-19T09:52:24-04:00June 19th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on PWN Commemorates Juneteenth: Black Folks for Palestine

My New Motto: SHOW UP & SHOW OUT

By Lashanda Salinas, HNP Advocate for TNThe views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.June 04, 2024 March has been an amazing month, and a [...]

2024-06-04T15:12:08-04:00June 4th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on My New Motto: SHOW UP & SHOW OUT

#HIVResists May Monthly Policy Update

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🔥 Hot Topic: Harm [...]

2024-05-28T15:43:25-04:00May 28th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists May Monthly Policy Update

#HIVResists April Monthly Policy Update

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🔥 Hot Topic: We [...]

2024-05-09T12:24:57-04:00May 9th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists April Monthly Policy Update

Positive Women’s Newsletter – April 2024

Subscribe for emails like this one from PWN directly in your inbox!   🌻 PWN Spring Voter Campaigns Wrap Up! 🌻 Our voter engagement teams have been working hard these past weeks mobilizing and educating their communities. HUGE congratulations to [...]

2024-05-08T16:48:01-04:00May 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter – April 2024

April 2024 Shero of the Month: Brielle Gillis

Congratulations to April 2024 Shero of the Month: Brielle Gillis of Texas!Check out her interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Millicent Foster of Louisiana. Brielle is an active member of the PWN Greater Houston Area chapter in Texas, and a [...]

2024-04-25T12:46:18-04:00April 25th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on April 2024 Shero of the Month: Brielle Gillis

PWN Rocked AIDSWatch! A Recap

Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN!   One month ago, Positive Women's Network descended on Washington, D.C. to make the voices of trans and cis women living with HIV heard, and fight for [...]

2024-04-18T12:51:00-04:00April 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on PWN Rocked AIDSWatch! A Recap

#HIVResists March Monthly Policy Update

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   Positive Women's Network-USA [...]

2024-04-12T13:20:33-04:00April 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists March Monthly Policy Update

Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice, Period

As advocates around the world celebrated International Women’s Day, it was difficult not to remember that two mothers are killed in Gaza every hour. It was difficult not to remember that of the estimated 25,000 fatalities in Palestine, approximately 70% [...]

2024-04-08T16:00:18-04:00April 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice, Period

Positive Women’s Newsletter, March 2024

Want this content directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   🌸 PWN-PA Spring Voter Campaign Launches! 🌸 PWN-Pennsylvania recently launched their spring voter engagement campaign! Our phone bankers & canvassers will be talking to community members [...]

2024-03-29T11:35:32-04:00March 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter, March 2024

March 2024 Shero of the Month: Millicent Foster

Congratulations to March 2024 Shero of the Month: Millicent Foster of Louisiana!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Kenya Moussa of Pennsylvania. Millicent is PWN-LA’s co-chair and has been doing a phenomenal job advocating for HIV decriminalization [...]

2024-03-29T11:06:28-04:00March 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on March 2024 Shero of the Month: Millicent Foster

February 2024 Shero of the Month: Kenya Moussa

Congratulations to February 2024 Shero of the Month: Kenya Moussa of Pennsylvania!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Dr. Carrie Foote of Indiana. Kenya is PWN-PA's co-chair and a Health Not Prisons Collective advocate doing amazing work [...]

2024-03-29T11:02:28-04:00March 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on February 2024 Shero of the Month: Kenya Moussa

#HIVResists February Monthly Policy Update

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   Uplifting the Demands [...]

2024-03-12T09:09:05-04:00March 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists February Monthly Policy Update

Positive Women’s Newsletter, February 2024

🌸 Spring Voter Engagement Season is Back! 🌸 PWN-USA is welcoming spring, and along with it: our voter engagement season! In case you missed it, our voter campaigns for Spring 2024 have launched in TX & CO! PWN-PA's campaign will [...]

2024-03-08T12:48:16-05:00March 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter, February 2024

In Loving Memory of Hydeia Broadbent: A Sustained Commitment to Dandelions/Lifetime Survivors

Want to receive messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN!   Hydeia Broadbent, the first Black youth activist born with HIV to publically share her HIV status at the age of 5, tragically passed [...]

2024-02-28T05:16:46-05:00February 28th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on In Loving Memory of Hydeia Broadbent: A Sustained Commitment to Dandelions/Lifetime Survivors

#HIVResists January Monthly Policy Update

Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   PWN is throwing down for the election and using our time wisely. Instead of doing the normal [...]

2024-02-12T10:36:02-05:00February 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists January Monthly Policy Update

Remembering Cecilia Gentili

The Positive Women’s Network USA community is deeply saddened by the passing of long-time community leader, actress, author, activist, advocate, and trailblazer, Cecilia Gentili.Ceclia has been a force among trans women of color not only in the U.S. but around [...]

2024-02-09T09:46:14-05:00February 9th, 2024|Uncategorized|1 Comment

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2024

Want more content like this? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!   On this National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we must resist surveillance technology like MHS by Elena Ferguson, PWN Policy Specialist National Black HIV AIDS Awareness [...]

2024-02-07T07:11:08-05:00February 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2024

PWN Welcomes our New Co-Executive Directors: Keiva Lei Cadena and Marnina Miller

Positive Women’s Network - USA is excited to announce our new leadership team: Marnina Miller and Keiva Lei Cadena will jointly serve as co-executive directors starting today.  “We can’t imagine a better team to lead PWN-USA into its bright future,” [...]

2024-01-29T13:20:26-05:00January 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on PWN Welcomes our New Co-Executive Directors: Keiva Lei Cadena and Marnina Miller

Positive Women’s Newsletter, January 2024

Upcoming PWN Member Listening Session! As a member-led organization, PWN is accountable to the needs and concerns of our members. We want your input! We want to hear directly from our members about what matters to you and how PWN [...]

2024-01-24T08:14:42-05:00January 24th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter, January 2024

January 2024 Shero of the Month: Dr. Carrie Foote

Congratulations to January 2024 Shero of the Month: Dr. Carrie Foote of Indiana!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Lashanda Salinas of Tennessee. Dr. Foote has been a PWN member for over 10 years and done incredible [...]

2024-01-23T09:45:17-05:00January 23rd, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on January 2024 Shero of the Month: Dr. Carrie Foote

Positive Women’s Newsletter, December 2023

Join us for Naina's Outgoing Celebration!PWN's beloved founding co-director, Naina Khanna, will be stepping down from her position in February after 15 years. We are so grateful to her for envisioning and creating Positive Women's Network USA and her years [...]

2023-12-20T10:37:13-05:00December 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter, December 2023

December 2023 Shero of the Month: Lashanda Salinas

Congratulations to December 2023 Shero of the Month: Lashanda Salinas of Tennessee!Don’t miss this moving conversation between Lashanda and our previous Shero, Grace O. Rutha of Pennsylvania, as they discuss Lashanda's recent victory in the battle against HIV criminalization, her [...]

2023-12-20T08:52:09-05:00December 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on December 2023 Shero of the Month: Lashanda Salinas

#HIVResists November/December Monthly Policy Update

Subscribe for monthly policy updates from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. Hot Topic – National HIV/AIDS Strategy Interim ReportOn [...]

2023-12-19T13:10:56-05:00December 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists November/December Monthly Policy Update

What Does World AIDS Day Mean to PWN?

Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!   In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated December 1st as World AIDS Day (WAD), created to unite people across the globe in support of people living with HIV, to [...]

2023-12-01T06:16:14-05:00December 1st, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on What Does World AIDS Day Mean to PWN?

Positive Women’s Newsletter, November 2023

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Another Powerful Voter Campaign In the Books! 7,594 voters contacted, 6,114 doors knocked, 3,292 supporters identified, 25+ volunteers and staff, 6 jam-packed weeks, 3 voter [...]

2023-11-29T10:49:54-05:00November 29th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Newsletter, November 2023

#HIVResists October Monthly Policy Update

Subscribe for monthly policy updates from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.   🔥Hot Topic: Genocide in Palestine The genocide in Palestine [...]

2023-11-28T13:42:15-05:00November 27th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVResists October Monthly Policy Update

PWN Honors Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023

Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!   Join us in observing Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20th), as we honor the lives of our siblings of trans experience we lost too soon, and celebrate the resistance and [...]

2023-11-20T15:12:28-05:00November 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on PWN Honors Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023

October 2023 Shero of the Month: Grace O. Rutha

Congratulations to October 2023 Shero of the Month: Grace O. Rutha of Pennsylvania!Don't miss this fascinating conversation between Grace and our previous Shero, Myra Franks of Alabama, as they discuss Grace's experiences as a journalist, a political asylee, a woman [...]

2023-10-29T14:34:40-04:00October 29th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on October 2023 Shero of the Month: Grace O. Rutha
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