[Viva] VALENTINES HANDMADE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!! LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW): Romance Starts at Home! 2015!

Peggy Frank pegfrank at telus.net
Sat Jan 31 12:50:28 PST 2015 

I just watched an old video - positively naked.  If you haven’t seen it, think about searching it on Tube. It really was a great way to look at HIV through the lens of getting rid of the cloths that we hide behind. Just googling positively Naked got it for me. 
Love to all  -peg
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Margarite Sanchez <margaritesanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ICW NA <icwnacontact at gmail.com <mailto:icwnacontact at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:42 AM
> Subject: VALENTINES HANDMADE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!! LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW): Romance Starts at Home! 2015!
> To: Karen Marcinczyk <gigicatraoine at gmail.com <mailto:gigicatraoine at gmail.com>>
> 
> 
> Dear fabulous women of ICWNA:
> 
> 
> This Sunday, February 1, 2015, marks the official beginning of LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW): Romance Starts at Home! 2015! Although February 1 through February 14 are the official dates of the campaign, we hope that everyone will carry the spirit of LPW all year round.
> 
> VALENTINES HANDMADE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU! 
> 
> ICW, along with Visual AIDS have teamed up with Dieu Donne in New York, New York to create a wonderful event making handmade valentines for WLHIV throughout the world. Community members, artists, supporters and allies all came together for this beautiful event. I attended this event and was overwhelmed by the energy and outpouring of love from all the participants.
> 
> The event was such a success that the number of handmade valentines has succeeded all expectations! We would LOVE to send one to you! If you would like one sent to you, we need your consent. Please email your mailing address to lovepositivewomen at gmail.com <mailto:lovepositivewomen at gmail.com>.
> 
> 
> WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR LPW?
> 
> We would would love you to share how you are celebrating Love Positive Women. We would like to hear about any community or individual celebrations you have planned. Are you have a lunch for WLHIV in your community? A girlfriends' trip to the movies? Something special for you? Please share your ideas to help inspire others!!
> 
> All my best and Love,
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
> re: email sent January 9, 2015
> 
> Dear ICWNA Family
> 
> 
> Would you like to receive a handmade valentine this Valentin's Day?! Please read the following email from Alex of Visual AIDS and the organization, LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN!
> 
> "LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN <http://jessicawhitbread.com/project/love-positive-women/> is an international series of events that uses Valentines Day as a backdrop, creating a platform for individuals and communities to engage in public and private acts of love and caring for women living with HIV. Working from a place of strength, LPW focuses on the idea of interconnectedness, relationship building, loving oneself and loving ones community.
> 
> Please note that the valentines are for women living with HIV. Thank you for respecting this."
> 
> Please see below, forwarded email, for all the information!
> 
> Best and Love to all!!
> 
> XOXOXO
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Romance Starts at Home! ICW Calls for Acts of Solidarity and Acts of Kindness
> 
> Inbox
> x
> 
> Jessica whitbread <jessicaicwglobal at gmail.com <mailto:jessicaicwglobal at gmail.com>>
> 
> Jan 6
> 
> 
> 
> to bcc: me
> 
> <icw_logo.jpg>​  <lpw_poster.jpg>
> ​
> 
> 
> 
> -Please Distribute Widely-
> 
>  
> 
> LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Romance Starts at Home!
> 
> ICW Calls for Acts of Solidarity and Acts of Kindness
> 
>  
> 
> January 6, 2015
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) launches its call to engage the world in acts of kindness and solidarity with women living with HIV during their annual LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Romance Starts at Home campaign which occurs between February 1 – 14th.
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
>  
> 
> Project Statement:
> 
>  
> LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN (LPW) is a project that uses social media to link local grassroots gestures of love. Using Valentines Day as a backdrop, LPW creates a platform for individuals and communities to engage in public and private acts of love and caring for women living with HIV. Going beyond romantic love to deep community love and social justice, LPW is call to action. LPW is a response to the lack of attention and support and to make commitments. It requires participants to spend time reflecting about how they as either a woman living with HIV or an ally will commit to lovingwomen living with HIV. Through action, change can be made to fueling economies of love and compassion. Working from a place of strength, LPW focuses on the idea of interconnectedness, relationship building, loving oneself and loving ones community. By starting from a place of love, within oneself there are endless ways that the negative impacts that HIV has on women living with HIV can be lessened.
> 
>  
> While LPW is active primarily between February 1st  – 14th, its reminisce remains as a symbol of how the world can be different.
> 
>  
> It has been an annual event since 2012.
> 
>  
>  
>  
> The Call:
> 
>  
> Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone felt loved this Valentines Day? Even the people that we didn’t know? This is why the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) created LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN: Romance Starts at Home! This annual project is as a way for each of us to express and show how a) we as women living with HIV are going to practice self-love, support and care and b) are allies will love us this Valentines Day.
> 
>  
> We ask that individuals and/or organizations create an ICW event for one or a thousand and publically declare how you willLOVE POSITIVE WOMEN. If you’re stuck for ideas here are some:
> 
>  
> Make a public statement on your website, facebook page, twitter or blog.
> 
> Host a valentines making arts and crafts event at your home or in your local women’s center/AIDS service organization and send them to groups of women living with HIV.
> 
> Host a potluck dinner and movie night for positive women.
> 
> Create a workshop in your community focused on women living with HIV.
> 
> Have your own special two weeks of self care and plan a nice activity for each day.
> 
> Record a video message declaring your love for positive women and put it on You Tube!
> 
> Bake cupcakes and take them to your local AIDS service organization.
> 
> Make a donation to ICW.
> 
>  
> As you can see the sky is the limit! You can do anything, and we encourage everyone to participate.
> 
>  
> We are using Facebook as a tool to keep you up to date on any local events that are happening around the world to celebrate the lives of women living with HIV.
> 
> Once you have decided on your event take a photo and post it on the Facebook group.
> 
>  
> https://www.facebook.com/LOVEPOSITIVEWOMEN <https://www.facebook.com/LOVEPOSITIVEWOMEN>
>  
> Note: If you are interested in having an ICW event in your area and need support or if you are a woman living with HIV please contact jessicaicwglobal at gmail.com <mailto:jessicaicwglobal at gmail.com> and/or lovepositivewomen at gmail.com <mailto:lovepositivewomen at gmail.com> 
> 
> 
> 
> To find out more about ICW and this campaign:
> 
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/internationalcommunityofwomenlivingwithhiv <https://www.facebook.com/internationalcommunityofwomenlivingwithhiv>
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LOVEPOSITIVEWOMEN <https://www.facebook.com/LOVEPOSITIVEWOMEN>
> Website: www.iamicw.org <http://www.iamicw.org/>
> Twitter:    @icw_global
> 
> 
> I AM ICW
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Karen L. Marcinczyk, MS
> Regional Coordinator
> International Community of Women Living with HIV
> North America (ICWNA)
> 
> aka "Gigi"
> 
> icwnacoordinator at gmail.com <mailto:icwnacoordinator at gmail.com>
> icwnacontact at gmail.com <mailto:icwnacontact at gmail.com>
> gigicatraoine at gmail.com <mailto:gigicatraoine at gmail.com>
> Skype: karen.marcinczyk1
> 917-656-5425 <tel:917-656-5425>
> 
> "I AM ICW!"
> 
> "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” 
> ― Bernard M. Baruch <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5768330.Bernard_M_Baruch>
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Viva mailing list
> Viva at lists.resist.ca
> https://lists.resist.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/viva

Peggy Frank
http://peggyfrank.blogspot.ca/
www.positivelyafrica.org

“I have been and still am a seeker,
but I have ceased to question stars and books;
I have begun to listen to the teachings
My blood whispers to me.”
- Herman Hesse







-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/viva/attachments/20150131/6a96fb86/attachment-0001.html>

More information about the Viva mailing list