On WorldAIDSDay, max_morris, a writer and academic living with HIV unpicks the ways in which protest and awareness look different in 2021.
, misinformation about HIV continues to contour our fears and desires. For example, despite meeting his boyfriend on Tinder, a man called Juan said to me,"I mistrust guys on Grindr".
But from my conversations with other young people living with HIV — including under-represented groups such as migrants, women, trans and non-binary people — there is a sense that the face of HIV activism is changing rapidly alongside the medical leaps and bounds. I asked two people who were born with HIV in 1999 about what kind of images they would like to see representing us in the media."Happier ones," Leah tells me."[But also] ones that show the effect of stigma.
In the history of the HIV movement, nothing has been handed to us. We've had to fight for better treatment and better representation. As Deborah Gold puts it:"A new generation is defining what HIV activism means to them, and using new avenues, such as social media, to fight stigma.
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