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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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#PWNSpeaks: Kenya Moussa’s First Time at USCHA

2023-10-13T14:58:45-04:00October 13th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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.October 13, 2023--the following is an interview of Kenya Moussa, PWN-PA Chapter co-chair and Health Not Prisons [...]

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#PWNSpeaks: Myra Frank’s USCHA Experience

2023-10-13T10:13:27-04:00October 13th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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.By: Myra Ann Franks, PWN-AL outreach coordinatorSeptember 29, 2023Several years after my diagnosis, my case manager said [...]

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#HIVResists September Monthly Policy Update

2023-10-11T09:02:15-04:00October 11th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Sign up to receive these monthly updates 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: The BudgetThe U.S. narrowly avoided another federal government shutdown. Congress [...]

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Apply to be PWN’s New Co-Executive Director!

2023-09-30T10:52:33-04:00September 30th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Subscribe to receive news like this from PWN in your inbox!We are excited to announce that we are seeking visionary and strategic leaders to build on Naina and Venita's legacy and step into the role of PWN’s Co-Executive Directors! We are looking [...]

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It’s election time! PWN kicks off campaigns in 3 states

2023-09-25T08:47:28-04:00September 25th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Subscribe for #PWNVotes updates in your inbox!What time is it? Election time! Yep, elections don’t just happen in even years.Local and state elections are just as important as congressional midterms and presidential elections, sometimes even more so, as life-changing policies [...]

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#PWNSpeaks: Lonely, Not Alone

2023-09-20T10:38:36-04:00September 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|

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.by: Marcya GullatteSeptember 20, 2023HIV is not a crime, or is it?As of 2022, thirty-five states have [...]

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#HIVResists August Monthly Policy Update

2023-09-15T08:50:29-04:00September 15th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Sign up to receive these monthly updates 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: The Supreme Court is teed up, once again, for [...]

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PWN announces planned transition of founding co-executive director

2023-09-05T09:43:09-04:00September 5th, 2023|Uncategorized|

 Subscribe for emails from PWN like this one in your inbox!We are writing with big news to share. After more than 15 years of helping to steward Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), Naina Khanna (they/she), founding co-executive director of PWN, will be [...]

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Black Liberation Means All of Us: Reflections on Cis-Trans* Solidarity and the Future of Our Movement

2023-09-04T12:07:04-04:00September 4th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Dear PWN community,Let's take a deep breath together; we have some hard stuff to talk about. Content warning for discussion of anti-trans* violence.In recent months, on virtual events that PWN hosted, we failed to interrupt trans-antagonism as it was happening [...]

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CHBW 2023 Rewind: Category is… Trailblazers!

2023-08-25T16:19:52-04:00August 25th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN-USA) hosted the 3rd annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) on 08/18/23! This year we are Honoring Our Trailblazers - Black women who stand on the shoulders of so many powerful Black [...]

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Celebrate and Honor our HIV Trailblazers

2023-08-16T09:05:17-04:00August 16th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Black women have always been the backbone of the HIV movement, fighting battles on multiple fronts despite being underpaid, systemically undervalued, and invisiblized. It is long past time for Black women to be given their flowers for all they’ve done. This [...]

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#HIVResists June/July Monthly Policy Update

2023-07-20T09:00:31-04:00July 20th, 2023|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.🔥Hot Topic: Budget and AppropriationsThe federal budget [...]

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Opal Lee Taught Us. Honoring and Learning from the Grandmother of Juneteenth

2023-06-19T07:16:39-04:00June 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|

June 19, 2023Today Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) commemorates Juneteenth, in recognition of the emancipation of Black people enslaved across the United States. In the spirit of celebrating and honoring Black women, we want to express our gratitude and give flowers [...]

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#HIVResists May Monthly Policy Update

2023-06-05T05:58:25-04:00June 5th, 2023|Uncategorized|

#HIVResists May Monthly Policy UpdateWas 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. 🔥Hot [...]

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Health Not Prisons Dispatch, Spring 2023

2023-06-03T07:56:39-04:00June 3rd, 2023|Uncategorized|

(Was this message forwarded to you? Sign up to receive quarterly updates from the HNP Collective!)The Health Not Prisons Collective is an intersectional national initiative launched in 2020 by Counter Narrative Project (CNP), Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN), Sero Project, Transgender Law Center (TLC), [...]

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Positive Women’s Newsletter – May 2023

2023-05-24T08:16:05-04:00May 24th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement’s Liberation Way off to a powerful startPWN’s third annual flagship day to Celebrate and Honor Black Women [...]

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#HIVResists April Monthly Policy Update

2023-05-03T13:20:14-04:00May 3rd, 2023|Uncategorized|

#HIVResists April Monthly Policy UpdateWas 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. Mifepristone [...]

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Medication abortion is safe—for now. But why is the HIV community consistently silent on reproductive rights? 

2023-04-24T08:42:40-04:00April 24th, 2023|Uncategorized|

April 24, 2023—Last Friday, the Supreme Court granted a stay to maintain nationwide access to a safe, effective and commonly-used medication abortion drug, mifepristone (“mife”), which is used along with misoprostol (“miso”) to terminate pregnancies. This was in response to a ruling earlier [...]

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#HIVResists March Monthly Policy Update

2023-04-04T10:14:36-04:00April 4th, 2023|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.BREAKING: Terrible Decision Reached in Braidwood [...]

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Talking about Trans Day of Visibility

2023-03-31T19:09:19-04:00March 31st, 2023|Uncategorized|

The following is a transcript of a live conversation on Trans Day of Visibility, March 31st, 2023. Facilitated by Antoinette Jones, National Field Organizer of PWN-USA. Panelists are RISE Gender Justice Trainers Arianna Jones and Octavia Y. Lewis. Featuring a [...]

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#HIVResists February Monthly Policy Update

2023-03-16T14:59:13-04:00March 14th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!February’s Hot Topic:Reproductive Health Rights and Justice – Lawsuit threatens access to Medication AbortionEvery month PWN puts out the Monthly Policy Update (MPU), tracking and analyzing [...]

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Positive Women’s Network Honors the Second Annual HIV Is Not A Crime (HINAC) Awareness Day

2023-02-28T08:41:50-05:00February 28th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN) honors the second annual HIV Is Not A Crime (HINAC) Awareness Day; the leadership of our movement partner, The Sero Project, [...]

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15 Years of Leading with Love: PWN Commemorates National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

2023-02-27T08:56:21-05:00February 27th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Positive Women’s Network-USA has been leading with love for fifteen years–leading in creating spaces, building power, and supporting the leadership of women, transgender and gender diverse folks living [...]

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#HIVResists January Monthly Policy Update

2023-01-19T13:04:24-05:00January 19th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!🔥January’s Hot Topic🔥:PWN's Top 5 Big Policies that Impacted the Lives of People Living with HIV in 2022Every month PWN puts out the Monthly Policy Update [...]

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