Happy International Women’s Day. Sophia Forum has traditionally always tried to have a Newsletter out on or in time for International Women’s Day and this year is no exception. There […]
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Facing the facts: lesbian and bisexual women’s vulnerability to HIV
Felicity Daly DrPH and Sophie Strachan The sexual health concerns of lesbians and bisexual women have often been invisible although studies conducted around the world show that lesbians and bisexual […]
Read moreTransphobic ‘Honour’-Based Abuse: A Conceptual Tool
Michaela Rogers University of Salford, UK Abstract This article proposes that an understanding of transphobic ‘honour’-based abuse can be employed as a conceptual tool to explore trans people’s experiences of […]
Read more“How can you be positive? Aren’t you a lesbian?”
Were the first jokey words my HIV consultant said to me. In “jest”. He actually didn’t know he had hit a nail on the head, I was HIV positive and […]
Read moreIntroduction to our LGBT History Month newsletter
February is LGBT history month, and so an important time to reflect on how HIV impacts on lesbian, bisexual and trans women. In this edition of the Sophia Forum newsletter, […]
Read moreA cloud of light
My HIV story Spring of 1990 I was diagnosed with HIV – AIDS. I was 24 years old and I was in prison; remanded in custody for illegal drug possession. […]
Read morePoem from a WISE-UP+ 2015 participant
I come from a line of women who get married twice I come from a line of women who are oppressed, abused and beaten I come from a line of […]
Read moreRaising the profile of positive women
I became Co – Chair of Sophia Forum in early July this year and I am really excited to be part of the organisation as it enters into its second […]
Read moreNearly, 10 years on, needed now more than ever
Raising the profile of positive women. Sophia Forum is celebrating our 10 year anniversary with our event, Wising Up: Women, Violence and HIV in the UK, in London in the […]
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Women Inspire, Support and Empower – Unleashing Positive Potential Are you a woman living with HIV? Are you young or have been diagnosed recently? Have you ever felt fed up and […]
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