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Positively Beautiful

We are barely grassroots - but we have a lot of seeds

About Me

Mission:
Positively Beautiful exists to reclaim the identities of people living with HIV/AIDS. Through makeup, hair, and fashion we help to erase identifying physical side effects of the HIV virus and medications. It is one more step in draining away the power HIV/AIDS has on our daily lives. HIV is not our identity. Positively Beautiful is about living.

What It's About:
Positively Beautiful is a day dedicated to Living with HIV/AIDS. In the United States HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence– largely due to the availability of effective medications. However, these medications have profound side effects that cause visible physical changes. On March 26, 2007 a group of Tucson, AZ friends and locals came together and found an answer. Through the art of makeup, hair, and fashion, Positively Beautiful is focused on erasing these distinctive side effects for women living with HIV/AIDS in southeastern Arizona. These women are mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, artists, professionals, grandmothers, fighters, wives, and women first. HIV/AIDS is not their identity. These are Women Living with HIV/AIDS – These Women are Positively Beautiful. Principal Photographer: Zachary Yanez and Hank Tuskinski


My Interests

SAAF's Reno Gannon Jell-O Wrestling Extravaganza Pictures are up.... Thank you to Hank Tusinski for fantastic pictures and parking privileges.Check out this video: SAAFs Reno Gannon Jell-O Wrestling Extravaganza

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Movies:

Positively Beautiful - Living the Fight
..Principal photographer: Hank Tuskinski

My Blog

Tucson Citizen: HIV patients pampered with makeovers

HIV patients pampered with makeoversHEIDI ROWLEY Tucson Citizen Denise McDonald has beaten ovarian and breast cancer and for the last 23 years has lived with HIV. But Monday morning, she di...
Posted by Positively Beautiful on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:04:00 PST

New York - Look out! Tucson is Coming

In 1988 at the State University of New York (SUNY) one of the most important studies in the fight against HIV/AIDS began - The Women's Infant Transmission Study (WITS). Through this study we have lear...
Posted by Positively Beautiful on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:42:00 PST