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Family, First and foremost, Happy Black History Month ❤️🖤💚✊🏾 It is the 100th anniversary of Black History Month and we are living out the vision Carter G. Woodson had of celebrating Blackness out loud and proud. It is truly a blessing to be young, gifted and Black. Now even with that what a week's been. Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested for covering a protest in Minneapolis. More Epstein files were released and it just gets more disgusting. The Trump administration is seizing voting ballots to discredit the upcoming midterm elections. All of this is happening and it seems to be never ending but I believe this is only a moment in time. An awful moment but a moment nonetheless. The people rising up in the streets gives me hope. We are the only way we get out of this mess; together. Speaking of together, thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Help Anna Get to the Ambies campaign. Together we’ve raised $330 so far 🎉 so I’m planning to go. That isn’t enough but I know we will raise more before the ceremony on February 23rd in NYC. If you haven’t given yet but you want to, the link is below. ✨
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New Episode Shine a Light On It: Black Women, HIV & Its Impact I Went Live & Told the World My Status: My Journey to Love and Freedom "I was scared because I knew that me becoming free meant I had to expose myself." In Episode 2 of Shine A Light On It, Anna DeShawn sits down with the incredible Chatrivia. Six years ago, Chatrivia sat in her car, turned on her phone, and told her Facebook community the truth: she had been living with HIV for 14 years. In this moving conversation, they talk about: - The "car video" that changed everything. - Why tacos are the center of her family traditions and business celebrations. - How she escaped an abusive relationship to find a love she never thought was possible. - Her mission to educate the West Side of Chicago and "feed the sheep." Chatrivia reminds us that HIV doesn't have her, that she has a life full of purpose, books, and unconditional love.
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🏳️🌈 Host of the Ambie award winning Queer News Podcast 🎤| 🎧 wherever * Founder of @e3radio 📻 Co-Founder of @thequbeapp
Family, This week during Anna’s Got a Word I talk about breathing through the hard times. When we begin to feel overwhelmed to stop ourselves and breathe in, hold, exhale and then think of something you’re grateful for and do it again. Breathe in, hold, exhale and think of something you’re grateful for. Do it over and over till you feel more balanced. The world is at war, trans rights are under perpetual attack, and so many things just feel upside down. But in the midst of all that there is...
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Family, The Ambies ended up being postponed from Monday to Tuesday of last week due to the blizzard. On Tuesday night I gathered on Zoom with some of my fellow nominees and pod friends so we could watch together. I talk about that experience more in my QCrew video this week but it was just what I needed. Now, I didn’t win in my category and there was a momentary feeling of, dang, but then I was ready to move on and cheer for my friends. On this entrepreneurial journey I’m clear we will always...