SisterLove, Inc. Newsletter

The CDC is soliciting comments to update their 2006 guidelines for HIV testing. The comments will give the CDC guidance on best practices for HIV screening in clinical settings and linkage to treatment and care. Please comment on what you believe from your personal experience would be the best approaches and how the guidelines can be changed to benefit those living with HIV, and those getting tested. The CDC is specifically looking for suggestions on revisions, edits, and new additions; contemporary issues and new evidence; implementation barriers, challenges, and lessons learned.

Want to learn more? RSVP to our facebook live event on October 24th here!

Click here to access our template comment to share your story!

A federal judge in Atlanta ruled to temporarily block HB481, also known as the “heartbeat bill”. The injunction will prevent the bill from becoming law until it makes its way through the courts. While delaying the predicted enactment of January 1, 2020, an uphill battle remains. In spite of this, we want to ensure folks that abortion is still legal in Georgia.

SisterLove stands by its belief and commitment to the reproductive justice and freedom of all women and people of reproductive capacity. This bill is an unconstitutional assault on reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. All Georgians deserve access to quality health care, including access to abortion, and other reproductive health services. We stand with our Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Coalition partners; the doctors, lawyers, and clergy who testified against this bill; and the brave Georgians who have shared their stories. Although this is a victory, the fight is not over. Tell your legislators that you support reproductive freedom for all Georgians. Call the Governor’s Office and voice your opposition to a frivolous and illegal burden for folks seeking to access care.

More information to come as the story develops.

Upcoming SisterLove Events

Get your tickets for the 10th Annual 2020 Leading Women Society Awards Gala. This year’s theme is Level Up The Love in celebration of SisterLove’s 30 years as advocating for women’s health, 20 years of work in South Africa, and 10 years of the Leading Women’s Society.

Everyone in attendance will enjoy soul-stirring stories of our honorees, entertainment and a 30-year celebration you won’t forget!

Purchase your tickets here.

Hello Community Partners and Happy TESTober! SisterLove is happy to host our second Trunk, Test, and Treat on October 30, 2019, from 6-8 PM

#TRUNKTESTTREAT will include candy giveaways for the kids, a Healthy Love Workshop for adults and free HIV and STI testing for anyone 14 years old and up.

Food and Beverages provided for those who join the Cocktales and Conversation!

Partner Updates

SisterSong, the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is celebrating 22 years of amplifying the voices of Indigenous people and folks of color, and are celebrating this milestone by hosting the fourth national Let's Talk About Sex conference October 25-27, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, GA.

This year, the theme is Accountability. Transcendence. Liberation.

LTAS! is the largest Reproductive Justice conference and will feature panelists, speakers, activists, entertainers, and leaders throughout various social justice movements and across sectors who are unapologetic about standing up for our reproductive and sexual freedom.

To learn more and register, please visit the Let's Talk About Sex Website

LTAS will feature amazing panelists including our own Sequoia Ayala, Zainab Jah, Damaris Henderson, and Marieh Scales. Check out their workshop on Satuday!

Girls Need Love Too: Centering pleasure for women and femmes

Patriarchal and heteronormative standards for sex, procreation, and pleasure have for too long denied the sexual desires and needs of women and feminine-identified people. This workshop will discuss ways in which these systems have historically and currently restrict and commodify the sexual expression of women and femmes, specifically women of color. Participants will be asked to share their personal experiences and identify unique ways to conduct these conversations in their own communities and networks to help create space for women and femmes to express their sexuality and experience pleasure in their relationships. We will also discuss different prevention mechanisms.

HOPWA Community Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10am- 12pm
DeKalb Board of Health
445 Winn Way 2nd Floor- Bohan Auditorium Decatur, GA 30030
Registration: tinyurl.com/hopwaatl

This is an unprecedented opportunity for people living with HIV, advocates and nonprofits to have their interests recorded in the city's Consolidated Plan (ConPlan). The ConPlan will define the next 5 years of housing plans for the city. Major HOPWA modernization funding cuts happen within that timeframe. The ConPlan is due in November and it will be submitted with or without our voices. Please attend if you can.

Sign up for updates to see what else we've been up to and learn all the fun ways you can get involved with keeping up the fight for Reproductive Justice!

SisterLove, Inc.

1237 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. SW

Atlanta, GA 30310

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