Speak Up! News, Statements and Press Releases

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 [...]

Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

🎂 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Want to receive messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN!   Positive Women’s Network USA commemorated National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in so many ways–we want to make sure you had a [...]

🌸 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]