What a new service that purports to confirm users are taking HIV prevention medication gets wrong about relationships Read article in it’s entirety at OneZero.Medium.com… By Lux Alptraum | April 9, 2019 In I/O, columnist Lux ...

Read article in it’s entirety at TheConversation.com… By Thurka Sangaramoorthy | February 20, 2019 The face of HIV in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating ...

April is stress awareness month, but at Upspoken we’re prioritizing our mental wellness year round. We know. Therapy is expensive, good therapists are hard to come by, and opening up and being vulnerable to a ...

Read article in it’s entirety at BlackEnterprise.com… By Lydia Blanco | February 17, 2019 When it comes to mental health issues, black women are more likely to experience mental health-related issues due to lower income, ...

Advocating for yourself in the doctor’s office can sometimes be the difference between life or death. I know, that may sound dramatic, but it’s the truth. Picture this: You’re sitting in the doctor’s office, your ...

Like many other brown girls growing up in a beige world, code-switching was my second “foreign language” – the skill of communicating in a less than natural way to win approval and get what I ...

I will never forget going into the doctor’s office for a checkup and walking out with life-changing news. In the midst of living my best single life – great job, beautiful home, and more I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T. ...

New year, new you; to-do lists can be daunting, stressful, and altogether counterproductive. With so many people making New Year’s resolutions to hit the gym or finally take that exotic vacation (not that those are ...

The holidays are a time of gifts and parties and commitments to everyone else but ourselves. It’s crazy! And I used to be the type of person that plugged into the crazy until I ran ...