[Viva] Fwd: Website Launch: Life and Love with HIV

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From: Your Life and Love with HIV Editors <info at lifeandlovewithhiv.ca>
Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:07 AM
Subject: Website Launch: Life and Love with HIV
To: Shelly Tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com>


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WE'VE LAUNCHED OUR NEW WEBSITE!

Life and Love with HIV
<https://lifeandlovewithhiv.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f03842f48e1dc8836f6cce204&id=0d1d370ffa&e=9412148fda>
is a blog and online community dedicated to de-stigmatizing sexuality and
relationships among women, partners, and couples living with HIV
by shifting the focus from risk to pleasure.

Well, hello there! You are receiving this email because you are a colleague
or subscribed to be notified of our launch. That means you're the first
person to receive the exciting news—and hopefully, the first to share it!

We are an online space for women, partners, and couples who are living with
HIV to share stories and experiences about love, romance, and sexuality.
We're tired of discourse that focuses only on stigma and risk.

We want to talk about the beauty, messiness, happiness and challenges of

*life and love with HIV.*
Here's some stuff you should know as we're starting out...
A labour of love

Building this website has been a great pleasure and a true labour of love.
Meet the team
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and
hear the story
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behind it.

Our stories, our voices

We've found six amazing feature writers from around the world, each of them
representing a unique perspective and courageously sharing with us their
personal challenges and triumphs of life and love with HIV. It takes
courage to put pen to paper; in their art, as in their lives, these writers
are fearless!

Sex One-Ohhh-One

Our website also features a wide range of resources for your reading
pleasure—scientific literature
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, active studies
<https://lifeandlovewithhiv.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f03842f48e1dc8836f6cce204&id=4eb6f7be67&e=9412148fda>,
books, links, and much, much more
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. It's all part of our goal of being your go-to website for information and
support on sex, love, and relationships, beyond HIV risk and transmission.
There's something for everyone—whether you're living with HIV or love and
support someone who is.
Feature stories.
Trans, HIV, And Intimacy

"It’s tiring to be told that because I wasn’t born with my vaginal space
that it is not worthy of love, of sexual exploration or respect." *Juno
Roche (Spain/UK)
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*writes about living at the intersection of trans and HIV and what that
means for intimacy.



Why Him?

"He was a gentleman that believed making love to a woman started early in
the morning, long before any sexual intimacy." *Gina Dos Santos' (South
Africa)*
<https://lifeandlovewithhiv.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f03842f48e1dc8836f6cce204&id=32fe5db866&e=9412148fda>
short fiction
featuring romance, pleasure, and heartache will grab you from the very
first sentence.



My Happy Place Vol. 1: How I Found Love Online

"I had recently gone through a traumatic separation from the father of my
children, and was suffering from depression." From despair to love, *Rhonda
(New Zealand)
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*shares her experience of online dating.

The Power Of The Tongue: Talking Dirty After Diagnosis

"There’s something about a warm tongue wrapped around my clit that drives
me to orgasmic levels of pleasure." *Marnina Miller*
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(United
States)
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*explains why oral sex rocks the world.

A Contract To Get Into Bed

"Two adults meet in a grocery store line up one day; they smile and
exchange pleasantries about the sales or the weather, and there’s a spark!"
Find out what happens when the heroine of this fiction, written by *Wynne
ST (Canada)*
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follows the
letter of the (HIV) law.
My First Date With HIV

"Dating can be a hard nut for anyone—even harder when you're living with
HIV. You have extra thoughts like who to date, when to tell them, and how
to deal with rejection." *Miss Stash  (Kenya)*
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chronicles
the fears and thrills of her first date with HIV.
*Come for the blog, stay for the conversation.*

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