So honored to have worked on Legalize Positivity, a brief comics history about the injustice of HIV criminalization in the U.S with Clio Sady for Visual Aids! This commission aims to continue this legacy of using comics to bring attention to the AIDS pandemic and to work against stigma by sharing peoples experiences and information visually.
We started working on this project in support of folks who have experienced HIV criminalization long before the current Covid-19 pandemic and unprecedented police and criminal justice accountability uprisings of early 2020, but looking at it now, I think the core issues are more relevant then ever.
Please check it out and learn more about HIV criminalization and the activists working to dismantle it in the United States, visit the Sero Project and The Center for HIV Law & Policy. For a global perspective, visit the HIV Justice Network and HIV Justice Worldwide.
Full visual description pdf for screen readers available here. Podcast from Visual Aids and the printed version to come!
