Visual AIDS Blog

Are you a woman/femme living with HIV who would like to receive a handmade card on Valentine’s Day as part of LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN?

Visual AIDS, Fire Island Artist Residency, Positive Women's Network — USA, The Well Project, and Dieu Donne are all collaborating to do something special for women and femmes living with HIV. → Read More

A Statement from Visual AIDS

We are devastated and disturbed by this week's tragic events in Washington DC. → Read More

Visual AIDS' Latest Accomplishments

A look back at some of our recent fall programming → Read More

Lifelines, Outlines, Throughlines

Noam Parness, Assistant Curator at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, reviews Eric Rhein: Lifelines, the first monograph of Rhein's work. → Read More

A Tribute to Frederick Weston, on the occasion of his birthday and the opening of his exhibition at Ortuzar Projects

Contributions from Stephanie Crawford, LJ Roberts, Pamela Sneed and more... → Read More

Watch TRANSMISSIONS Online!

Six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States, now available to stream online. → Read More

Frederick Weston 1946-2020

Visual AIDS is heartbroken to announce the passing of a beloved member of our family, the brilliant artist, poet and performer Frederick Weston. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 4: Strutting to Stop Stigma

Rae Lewis-Thornton speaks to Mel Rattue about her comic, “Strutting to Stop Stigma" and Catwalk4Power, a group of women living with HIV who work to empower each other by organizing workshops and fashion shows. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 3: Paco

Artist and HIV advocate Joey Terrill speaks with Carlo Quispe about comics as a tool for addressing fear and stigma in the gay community. They discuss what has changed—and what hasn’t—since the 1980s, and how comics can offer new forms of representation for queer Latinx communities. → Read More

Strip AIDS Podcast | Episode 2: Legalize Positivity

HIV criminalization activist Robert Suttle speaks with Inés Ixierda and Clio Sady about their comic Legalize Positivity. Together, they discuss how HIV criminalization codifies stigma, the origins of the prison-industrial complex, and how prisons perpetuate harm. → Read More