Thank you Rosemary Barton and MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Celina Caesar-Chavannes appeared tonight on CBC Power and Politics with host Rosemary Barton. She was there to discuss her experiences with depression, before and since becoming MP for Whitby and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Parliamentary Secretary. Rosemary’s thorough, careful questions brought out responses I could relate to in my own experience – and even in present … Continue reading Thank you Rosemary Barton and MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 2, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography bipolar II health-care mental health politics stigma Source Type: blogs
This.
http://projects.sfchronicle.com/2016/aids-survivors/portraits/ (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - December 19, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV biography/autobiography health-care mental health Erin Allday San Francisco Chronicle Source Type: blogs
December 6th
While we honour the memory of all victims of male violence against women everywhere, before and since, Canadians particularly recall today the names of the victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989: Geneviève Bergeron, 21, was a second year scholarship student in civil engineering. Hélène Colgan, 23, was in her … Continue reading December 6th (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - December 5, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism gender grief Dec. 6 Ecole Polytechnique men's violence against women misogyny white ribbon Source Type: blogs
World AIDS Day 2016
The blank page stares up at me, “World AIDS Day 2016”. That will be Thursday. It’s not like it used to be when life was much more urgent, desperate. I think of the dead. I still sorely miss my friends, friends from our twenties and thirties. Gone. It’s like Remembrance Day, but I don’t like … Continue reading World AIDS Day 2016 (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 29, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography friendship grief World AIDS Day Source Type: blogs
Generosity
As heard on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning today Wood Haven Country Lodge in the Kawarthas opens its heart next weekend to women and children from area shelters, offering them a get-away in the busy holiday season. David explained to Matt Galloway that when his partner died of AIDS several years ago, he decided to extend an … Continue reading Generosity (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 24, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV friendship Sue Johanson support Wood Haven Country Lodge Source Type: blogs
Did you see this?
Exciting news from the NIH! “Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have identified an antibody from an HIV-infected person that potently neutralized 98 percent of HIV isolates tested, including 16 of 20 strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class. The remarkable breadth and potency of this antibody, named N6, make it an … Continue reading Did you see this? (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 18, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV Planet Earth has AIDS World AIDS Day Source Type: blogs
Meanderings of a mental health client in good company
Originally posted on My journey with AIDS...and more!: Would it be much of a surprise, even to the casual reader, that I am a mental health client? I have been since soon after my conclusive HIV diagnosis in 1990, although I wish now that I had sought such accompaniment long before then. It started… (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - November 14, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: Creative Arts health-care homosexuality mental illness Montréal poetry sexual orientation Source Type: blogs
Remembering “ The Romans ” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa
just an illustration🙂 I found it in the Yellow Pages, which I was checking out at the Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay Street. I had just arrived from Niagara College. It was 1979. I was 19. I thumbed through the book, checking “Baths”, which brought up bathroom fixtures mostly, then I think I tried “Saunas”. … Continue reading Remembering “The Romans” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 28, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography coming out of the closet homosexuality youth Youth/Elders Project Operation Soap Romans bath house Source Type: blogs
Updated: Remembering “ The Romans ” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa
just an illustration🙂 I found it in the Yellow Pages, which I was checking out at the Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay Street. I had just arrived from Niagara College. It was 1979. I was 19. I thumbed through the book, checking “Baths”, which brought up bathroom fixtures mostly, then I think I tried “Saunas”. … Continue reading Updated: Remembering “The Romans” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 28, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography coming out of the closet homosexuality youth Youth/Elders Project Operation Soap Romans bath house Source Type: blogs
Reprise: A human wreck at ‘ Wreck Beach ’
It was my first visit to the west coast, that summer of 1996, and – given my fragile health – I was determined to make it the trip of a lifetime. I would fly to Vancouver and then take the train across Canada to return home. My purpose in being out there was to attend … Continue reading Reprise: A human wreck at ‘Wreck Beach’ (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 21, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography Mount Sinai Narrative Writing Group travelogue life and death Source Type: blogs
No offence to ‘ black dogs ’ but I got real today
Bright and early this morning, before I could slip into dishonesty, I volunteered to my diabetes specialist that I was depressed. Actually it was more like joining in conversation with her as she wondered aloud if any ‘black dogs’ were about. There’s always something cathartic about admitting this after circular self-arguments about whether I am … Continue reading No offence to ‘black dogs’ but I got real today (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 19, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV mental health health-care autobiography type-II diabetes medical update bipolar II friendship Source Type: blogs
Remembering “ The Romans ” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa
I found it in the Yellow Pages, which I was checking out at the Toronto Coach Terminal on Bay Street. I had just arrived from Niagara College. It was 1979. I was 19. I thumbed through the book, checking “Baths”, which brought up bathroom fixtures mostly, then I think I tried “Saunas”. I can’t be … Continue reading Remembering “The Romans” – The Romans II Health and Recreation Spa (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 19, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography coming out of the closet homosexuality youth Youth/Elders Project Operation Soap Romans bath house Source Type: blogs
I ’ m back, breaking my blogging fast
Facebook, with its at-best superficial ways of linking me to my world, has taken me away from greater reflection possible in this blog so…I’m back – on my journey here. The past few weeks I have been involved with the Youth/Elders Project, a joint effort of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the 519 Community Centre and … Continue reading I’m back, breaking my blogging fast (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV biography/autobiography coming out of the closet friendship grief holiday letter queer Youth/Elders Project Buddies In Bad Times Senior Pride Network The 519 Church Street Community Centre Source Type: blogs
Time Stamp: Blog Writer ’ s Block
As of late, I’ve ‘got nothing’. Facebook has ruined my blogging. (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - October 17, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: blog therapy writing Source Type: blogs
I am reminded
of December 6, 1989 at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. I am reminded of February 5, 1981 – Toronto’s bath house raids, the catalyst for my coming out. I am reminded of stolen innocence as a child at the hands of a stranger. I am reminded of the “flu” I couldn’t shake in May […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 15, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism anti-LGBTQI violence gay-bashing grief homophobia homophobia/transphobia homosexuality PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) sexual orientation Source Type: blogs
