Write It Out! is supersizing its mission of empowering people with HIV

Donja R. Love. Photo credit: Write It Out! Workshop Five years in, Donja R. Love’s writing program for people living with HIV is still telling the community to keep dreaming big. Love is an award-winning playwright devoted to celebrating Black queer love and shining a light on the full experience of what it means to be living with HIV. That includes the clueless, the ratchet, and the bougie. But as Love tells INTO , “We’ve already seen stories about people, ‘cough-cough,’ dying from AIDS. Now it’s time to show the world what living with HIV looks like today instead of the 1980s.” Love says their mission to reframe the narrative around HIV comes from “struggling with my own HIV diagnosis, love for our poz community, and a desire to surround people like a newly-diagnosed Donja with love and softness. 15 years ago, young Donja didn’t know how they were going to survive.” Thanks to the power of writing, Love says they’ve gone past surviving and moved into thriving. Recognizing that everyone living with HIV deserves to thrive is a major reason why they developed Write It Out! ― a 10-week digital writing program that teaches people living with HIV how to transform their own stories into short plays. Culture, unfiltered Twice a week, our newsletter will bring you the pulse of queer culture, from the tastemakers to the groundbreakers. Related Donja R. Love Is Creating a World Where Black LGBTQ+ Folks Can Love and Be Loved We don’t have to be the best versions of ourselves to desire love. We don’t have to be the best versions of ourselves to be in love. Each year on or around World AIDS Day, plays written by new Write It Out! participants are given staged readings with professional actors and directors. Since the program was launched during the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown, these performances were initially presented on Zoom. That changed last year, after Love secured funding to fly the 2023 Write It Out! cohort in from all over the country to see their visions brought to life in person at New York’s […]

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