International Women’s Day – The Power is Ours
Ahead of International Women’s Day, on the 7th March, Positively UK’s Women’s Room and Act Up Women, held a spectacular Continue reading
Speaking Up!
The Diary of an HIV+ Activist
Strutting for Power with Madam Storm
The event is on 7th March doors open 7 pm Brixton East 100 Barrington Road SW9 7N5 #RT @Positively_UK Continue reading
Yoga: re-discovering physical and mental balance after an HIV diagnosis
Through yoga I rediscovered the joy of being in my skin, flesh and bones. As I started to go to yoga classes more frequently, something awoke within me. Pure happiness of being alive. Lifting my arms, breathing: I felt all the cells in my body rejoicing…. yoga helped me re-connect to something within me which is strong, happy, stable and compassionate.
Women living with HIV: time to talk about pleasure….
Good sex, intimacy and sensual pleasure are an important part of quality of life, but it is very rare that we give ourselves space to think about them. Sex is powerful. It underlies so much of our lives, who we are, and what we do. However, we seldom have opportunities to talk openly about it. Having HIV, and many of us having acquired HIV through sex, complicates things even further. However, I firmly believe that HIV does not have to be a barrier to a pleasurable sex life.
Women’s Health for women living with HIV
I am very excited that The Women’s Room next week will provide a space for women with HIV to ask all their treatment and health related questions to Dr Verity Sullivan, an HIV physician, who is particularly passionate about the health of women living with HIV.
The group is open to all women living with HIV, we have a crèche, and can reimburse travel expenses to women on a low income. So if you have any questions about HIV, you never dared to ask before…. Come and join us!
Love Positive Women
This month at the Women’s Room, our monthly support group for women with HIV, we celebrated Valentine’s Day and gathered Continue reading
Letter to myself 20 years ago, when I received my HIV diagnosis
Dear Silvia, This is one of the most frightening days of your life. As usual, when filled with anxiety you Continue reading
19 years with HIV
Today is 19 years we are together. This is also the year I turn fifty. My life has been defined by you, there is no denying it. You have pushed me in so many directions. The highest and the lowest. I never felt so lonely and damaged like today 19 years ago. But today you connect me to an amazing community of people that in spite of fear, suffering, illness and stigma, have risen, resisted and flourished.
