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How Black queer people show up for each other in nontraditional ways should be a lesson for us all.

Already set back by COVID-19, primarily non-Black organizations are walking a line between allyship and appropriation.

For years, Cosmo tried to convince doctors that they needed a hysterectomy. And for years, their doctors didn't listen.

While Henrietta Hudson is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are fundraising for their own cause, they are still managing to help those within their community.

“The impact ... has been devastating on women living with HIV,” says Naina Khanna of Positive Women’s Network.

Even with a pandemic going on, it’s crucial to protect and care for your sexual and reproductive health. Here’s how.

By raising questions and considerations, these activists remind us to build community in a time of distance by loving, not fearing, each other.

On April 16, TheBody hosted a livestream panel discussion entitled “Policing Pandemics: Criminalization From HIV to COVID-19.” We invited four pillars of HIV advocacy to speak with us about our current moment, offer guidance on what to do next, and answer questions from the audience.

It’s your body, and you have a right to ask as many questions as you need to and do what you need to do in order to decide if this is the right form of birth control for you.

“Now, sleeping with solely women, I was under the assumption I did not need to get regularly screened: Without the evidence, without the narrative, we feel like it’s futile,” Kirsten Judson writes.