After years of detaching from my emotions, my body decided it was time for me to sit still and listen. Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, I found myself planted on a floor unable to lift my body off the ground. The tension arose between telling myself one thing and my body saying the other.
Her diagnosis came last year.

President Donald Trump fired the remaining members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) Wednesday, reportedly informing them without explanation with a letter delivered by FedEx. The mass dismissal of the advisers marked another nadir in the administration’s dealing with the council. In June, six members resigned from PACHA writing in an open letter, published in Newsweek, saying the Trump White House was pushing for legislation that would harm people living with HIV.

Mother of 3 Gets Life-Saving Transplant Thanks to a Kind Stranger