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Read this email on our website. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   Applications to be a PWN-USA Policy Fellow close soon!  Our deadline for the PWN-USA Year 7 Policy Fellowship cohort [...]

This statement is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   Join PWN in Recognizing HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day As a founding partner of the [...]

This newsletter is available on our website here. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox!   💐 Honoring Our Movement Mothers This Black History Month! 💐 In honor of Black History Month and [...]

Congratulations to February 2025 Shero of the Month: Stephanie Knupsky of Pennsylvania!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by January’s Shero, Ruby Garner of New York. Artist, activist, and accomplice, Stephanie is a member of Positive Women's Network Pennsylvania chapter. She [...]

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Want emails like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   Apply to be a PWN-USA Policy Fellow today!  Positive Women’s Network-USA is excited to open applications for the Year 7 of the Policy Fellowship [...]

Sharon DeCuir, PWN leader and reproductive justice champion for all women living with HIV in Louisiana, has joined the ancestorsIt is with profound sadness that we remember and honor our esteemed colleague and friend, Sharon DeCuir. Sharon was a fierce [...]

Hi everyone, We’re sure you all are watching the Trump administration’s latest authoritarian power-grab: temporarily ordering a freeze on federal grants and loan programs. This is part of the larger far-right strategy of pushing the poor and working class, especially QTBIPOC, deeper into crisis while [...]

Congratulations to January 2025 Shero of the Month: Ruby Garner of New York!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by November’s Shero, Evany Turk of Texas. Ruby is a proud PWN-NY chapter member who has been thriving with HIV for over [...]

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   We'll get through this, together. Dear PWN Family, Today, Inauguration Day 2025, is a difficult day for our communities to say the least, but we [...]

This newsletter is available on our website here.Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! 🎉 Celebrating Pat Migliore, Outgoing PWN Board Co-Chair! 🎉PWN's beloved Board of Directors co-chair, Pat Migliore, will be stepping down from [...]

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Consider a Gift of PWN Sustainability This Holiday SznDear Alex, As the year draws to a close, we reflect on the incredible progress we’ve made together and [...]

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for emails from PWN in your inbox! 😍 Thank You All for an Unforgettable 2024! 😍PWN-USA has fought, celebrated, and advocated our way through another long year. We are so proud of all the accomplishments, [...]

Want updates like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   PWN-USA ran 3 voter engagement campaigns this fall election season in Texas-Greater Houston Area, Pennsylvania, & Colorado. Our campaigns focused on what matters most to [...]

For years now PWN has established itself as a leader in voter organizing throughout the country. We see voting as harm reduction; engaging our people in the civic process is something we will keep doing no matter who is in [...]

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Want content like this directly in our inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN today!   🗳 A Historic Voter Engagement Campaign Szn! 🗳 PWN-USA ran 3 voter engagement campaigns this fall election season in Texas-Greater Houston Area, Pennsylvania, & Colorado. [...]

Congratulations to November 2024 Shero of the Month: Evany Turk of Texas!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Sharon DeCuir of Louisiana. Evany currently serves on PWN's board of directors, but has been involved with PWN for [...]

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 [...]

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN!   Tomorrow is Election Day! As you know by now, PWN has been working hard in anticipation of November 5th, Election Day! Our campaign leaders in Pennsylvania, [...]

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!   PWN has been talking to voters and building power in our communities to Get Out the HIV Vote! We have on the ground campaigns happening [...]

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 [...]

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Subscribe to receive emails like this one from PWN directly in your inbox! 🤩 USCHA 2024 Recap! 🤩 PWN-USA showed up and showed at this U.S. Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA) 2024! We had over 40 members, staff, and board [...]

Subscribe to receive emails like this one from PWN directly in your inbox! Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement 2024 Was EPIC! PWN-USA recently hosted our 4th annual Celebrate & Honor Black Women in the HIV [...]

Want to receive messages like this directly in your inbox? Sign up for the PWN email list here! Positive Women's Network-USA  is commemorating the 4th annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) national day of action [...]

Positive Women's Network-USA  is commemorating the 4th annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) national day of action! Black women have always led the way in innovating solutions for the HIV community, but have not consistently [...]

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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 [...]

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🎂 PWN-USA is Turning 16! 🎂 PWN is turning 16! We've come a long way since 2008, when 28 diverse women leaders living with HIV came together to form a network to strengthen the strategic power of all women living [...]

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 [...]

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!   We've come a long way since 2008, when 28 diverse women leaders living with HIV came together to form a network to strengthen the [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Katie Willingham The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA. April 15, 2024 Over 600 advocates from across the country descended on Washington, [...]

By Tana Pradia The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.April 15, 2024 We, as members of PWN USA came to AIDSWatch, we came [...]

By Marcya Gullatte The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.April 15, 2024 “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not [...]

By Susan MullThe views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.April 15, 2024 How does one parse every significant activity that happened at AIDSWatch 2024 [...]

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 [...]

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% [...]

Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN!   There are over 1.6 million trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth (age 13+) and adults across the United States.   Every day we see the rights, dignity, and [...]

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 [...]