[Viva] Fwd: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV Vancouver Book Launch

[Margarite Sanchez]

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From: Jessica Whitbread <jessicawhitbread at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:16 PM
Subject: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV Vancouver Book
Launch
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***Please share this with your networks -- especially any women who are
connected to other women living with HIV**[image: Inline image 2] *

Join us to celebrate the brave and amazing women living with HIV who
participated in this body of work at the Tea Time: Mapping Informal
Networks of Women Living with HIV Book Launch in Vancouver. This event is a
way to thank our friends and community members for being there for use to
help make use strong enough to find the cracks in the stigma and find each
other.

Tea and Baked Goods will be provided.

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About the book:

T ea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV began as
Jessica Whitbread’s master’s thesis. She was interested in finding a way to
build the fragmented and disconnected network of women living with HIV in
Canada through a community-based research project that brought women living
with HIV together using the Tea Time method. The project was designed to
highlight the health needs of women living with HIV in a North American
context, as well as to explore the application of the Tea Time method as a
community-building tool. After the original research phase was complete,
Tea Time has shifted to be a community arts project and has expanded
globally.

Through this work Jessica has hosted tea parties with over 64 women living
with HIV. Each woman’s (including Jessica) participation was documented
through a personal letter and teacup that has been photographed. The Tea
Time book is a collection of the photos as well as an introduction to the
Tea Time method and Jessica’s personal and academic insight into the
project.

“Tea Time became a personal journey to discover my own understanding of HIV
in relation to gender. Each woman’s story is rooted in her own individual
experience. This is mine. Similar to the many conversations that were had
during Tea Time, these pages offer glimpses of the complicated thought
process of living with HIV. You will read about some of these thoughts in
the letters that were shared by the women who attended.”

The book is a 194-page, hard cover coffee table book that has a very
limited printing of 100 copies. There will be a smaller number of copies
that have very limited edition cover sleeves by Jessica MacCormack, Johnny
Nawrajac and Anthea Black. Each book has gold foil stamping and will be
numbered. With only 25 copies being available for at each launch, and there
will also be a free online version available to everyone. All the donations
will go towards continuing the project and continuing to build the
community.

Please contact Jessica Whitbread to RSVP and/or inquire about reserving
copies of the book.

Special love goes out to Jonathan Lefrancois for being the rock that
designed the book; Anthea, Johnny, and Jessica for being so supportive and
gracious for designing beautiful cover sleeves; Julie, Jill, Morgan, Sean,
Cate, Will, Robert, Darien and Lesley my volunteer editors; and last but
not least the brave and beautiful women living with HIV that participated
in the project.

Thanks to SRC and CIHR for the funding to make sharing this work possible.
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