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

[Charlene Anderson]

Fabulous website. 

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> On Jul 24, 2018, at 9:45 AM, anne bonner <thewoodbuffalo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> looks amazing :)
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>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:57 AM, heidi safford via Viva <viva at lists.resist.ca> wrote:
>> Congrads to ALL involved, from organizers to writers, with this amazing project resource website....lots of VERY interesting stories and info. VERY exciting.
>> THANK YOU to everyone for all there hard work to get this started and off the ground
>> Wow, Wow, Wow !!!!
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>> From: shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com>
>> To: viva <Viva at lists.resist.ca> 
>> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:22 AM
>> Subject: [Viva] Fwd: Website Launch: Life and Love with HIV
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>> Shelly Tognazzini
>> HIV Peer Research, Health and Wellness Coordination
>> 604-440-1579 | shetognazzini at gmail.com
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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!
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>> Life and Love with HIV 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. 
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>> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> We want to talk about the beauty, messiness, happiness and challenges of
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>> life and love with HIV. 
>> Here's some stuff you should know as we're starting out...
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>> A labour of love
>> Building this website has been a great pleasure and a true labour of love. Meet the team and hear the story behind it.
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>> 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! 
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>> Sex One-Ohhh-One
>> Our website also features a wide range of resources for your reading pleasure—scientific literature, active studies, books, links, and much, much more. 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.
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>> 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) writes about living at the intersection of trans and HIV and what that means for intimacy.
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>> 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) short fiction featuring romance, pleasure, and heartache will grab you from the very first sentence.
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>> 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) shares her experience of online dating.
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>> 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 (United States) explains why oral sex rocks the world. 
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>> 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), follows the letter of the (HIV) law.
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>> 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) chronicles the fears and thrills of her first date with HIV.
>> Come for the blog, stay for the conversation.
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>> Tag #lifeandlovewithHIV so we can find and feature your stories.
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