MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.