Welcome to DBQ. This publication, now entering it’s10th year was established to not only document the culture, experience, and work of LGBTQ+ people of color, but to affirm, celebrate and to garner visibility for community.
March 10, 2019 - National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day #NWGHAAD
According to the CDC, in 2014, women made up 19 percent of new U.S. HIV diagnoses. This awareness day recognizes the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls.
In 1990, at the age of 23 with two small children my mother, Jill Jones, was dianogsted with AIDS and given less than 6 months to live. Today almost 30 years later at the ripe age of 51, snatched because black doesn’t crack, with a head full of gray because her wisdom is her crown and a pearly white smile because holiness has been her pathway to God. Listen in on our raw conversation about her journey to healing.
