For about a year, there has been much discussion about the possibility of a cure for HIV. Visit POZ’s website to learn more about the many different aspects to this conversation. For BABES Network-YWCA’s summer newsletter, we asked the question: What would it be like to be cured of HIV? Some people in our community… Continue Reading To Be Cured of HIV
by Shanelle Matthews My biological dad was in prison when I was little. My mom, single at the time, would drive me, my brother, and sister to see him. Because I was little, I don’t have a lot of memories of this time, but I do remember one thing. At the prison, an impassable glass… Continue Reading The Sacrifices I Was Raised On: How Empathy Brings Us Closer To a Radical Politic of Family
By Reshma Shamasunder Director, California Immigrant Policy Center Originally published on 5/10/13. Like most moms, Mother’s Day for me is an opportunity to celebrate with my children and family, and reflect upon how deeply I cherish motherhood. While supporting our children as they grow and adapt to the world is joyful, we moms face so many… Continue Reading What Immigrant Moms Want for Mother’s Day
By Elizabeth L. Harrison, Communications Manager YWCA Missoula “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Dr. Martin Luther King We have all seen firsthand how America’s flawed health care system hurts our clients, our colleagues, our friends and our families. Because the YWCA is committed… Continue Reading Racial Justice through Health Care
By Jeff Nall Truthout | Op-Ed As a college-educated, heterosexual, white, male American citizen I know something about (unearned) privilege. But being poor – for the last three years our family of five has lived on, and continues to live on, well under $30,000 annually – has also taught me that a social analysis that… Continue Reading It’s Time for the Poor to Come Out of the Plutocracy’s Closet of Shame