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We Will Liberate Us

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

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 [...]

Tomorrow is Get Out the HIV Vote Day!

2024-10-23T13:31:35-04:00October 23rd, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – October 2024

2024-10-17T12:37:43-04:00October 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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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#HIVResists September Monthly Policy Update

2024-10-07T11:12:39-04:00October 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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#HIV Resists July Monthly Policy Update

2024-08-05T12:18:45-04:00August 5th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – July 2024

2024-07-24T13:21:40-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Uncategorized|

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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#HIVResists June Monthly Policy Update

2024-07-12T16:50:36-04:00June 27th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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: [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – June 2024

2024-06-21T12:08:52-04:00June 21st, 2024|Uncategorized|

🎂 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 [...]

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PWN Commemorates Juneteenth: Black Folks for Palestine

2024-06-19T09:52:24-04:00June 19th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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My New Motto: SHOW UP & SHOW OUT

2024-06-04T15:12:08-04:00June 4th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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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#HIVResists May Monthly Policy Update

2024-05-28T15:43:25-04:00May 28th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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#HIVResists April Monthly Policy Update

2024-05-09T12:24:57-04:00May 9th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – April 2024

2024-05-08T16:48:01-04:00May 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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April 2024 Shero of the Month: Brielle Gillis

2024-04-25T12:46:18-04:00April 25th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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PWN Rocked AIDSWatch! A Recap

2024-04-18T12:51:00-04:00April 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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#HIVResists March Monthly Policy Update

2024-04-12T13:20:33-04:00April 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Palestinian Liberation is Reproductive Justice, Period

2024-04-08T16:00:18-04:00April 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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% [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter, March 2024

2024-03-29T11:35:32-04:00March 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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March 2024 Shero of the Month: Millicent Foster

2024-03-29T11:06:28-04:00March 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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February 2024 Shero of the Month: Kenya Moussa

2024-03-29T11:02:28-04:00March 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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#HIVResists February Monthly Policy Update

2024-03-12T09:09:05-04:00March 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter, February 2024

2024-03-08T12:48:16-05:00March 8th, 2024|Uncategorized|

🌸 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 [...]

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

2024-02-28T05:16:46-05:00February 28th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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#HIVResists January Monthly Policy Update

2024-02-12T10:36:02-05:00February 12th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Remembering Cecilia Gentili

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

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 [...]

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2024

2024-02-07T07:11:08-05:00February 7th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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

2024-01-29T13:20:26-05:00January 29th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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,” [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter, January 2024

2024-01-24T08:14:42-05:00January 24th, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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January 2024 Shero of the Month: Dr. Carrie Foote

2024-01-23T09:45:17-05:00January 23rd, 2024|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter, December 2023

2023-12-20T10:37:13-05:00December 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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December 2023 Shero of the Month: Lashanda Salinas

2023-12-20T08:52:09-05:00December 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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#HIVResists November/December Monthly Policy Update

2023-12-19T13:10:56-05:00December 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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What Does World AIDS Day Mean to PWN?

2023-12-01T06:16:14-05:00December 1st, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter, November 2023

2023-11-29T10:49:54-05:00November 29th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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#HIVResists October Monthly Policy Update

2023-11-28T13:42:15-05:00November 27th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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PWN Honors Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023

2023-11-20T15:12:28-05:00November 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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October 2023 Shero of the Month: Grace O. Rutha

2023-10-29T14:34:40-04:00October 29th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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 [...]

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