There Was Love Here
22 February 2024 - 38 minsIn this final episode, we turn to people living with HIV today — longtime survivors of a plague who, despite their pain, frustrations and desires to just be done with it, realize they can’t be done with it. These are people like Kia LaBeija, an artist born HIV-positive, who turned to photography at 16, a couple years after her mother died, to help make sense of her story. And they are people like Phill Wilson, an activist who still bears the scars of his decades fighting in the HIV and AIDS trenches; Valerie Reyes-Jimenez, the proudly positive woman we met in the first episode, who talks about what it’s like to age as a HIV-positive woman; Victor Reyes, one of the children who went through H...
Series Episodes
What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?
How one woman refused to accept the status quo and helped save the lives of thousands of people in her neighborhood.
39 mins
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Why it took the Black community so long to respond to the AIDS crisis.
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The story of how a group of women changed the very definition of AIDS.
44 mins
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If I Didn't Have HIV, I Wouldn't Have Met You
Stories from Harlem Hospital’s pediatric AIDS ward.
39 mins
25 January 2024 Finished
