Stamina Not Stigma Launch Event with screening of "Healing Inner Voices"

Southern Gulf Islands AIDS Society

Announcing the launch of Stamina Not Stigma, an important community health project for BC's Southern Gulf Islands region.

<h3><a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stamina Not Stigma</a> is an important and timely community health project for BC&#x27;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Islands" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Southern Gulf Islands</a> region. </h3>The <a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stamina Not Stigma</a> events series begins with a viewing of the beautifully crafted, ground breaking film, <a href="https://drawingwisdom.ca/project/healing-inner-voices/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Healing Inner Voices</a> by HIV+ 2-Spirit Indigenous filmmaker, Martin Morberg. “Stigma won’t live in my world,” says Val Nicholson, who is featured in the film and is a BIPOC co-facilitator of the<a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Stamina not Stigma</a> project. The filmmakers see this peer-led virtual event as a decolonized and spiritual approach to addressing HIV stigma, transferring Indigenous knowledge through storytelling – sharing stories of healing and resilience. “It was only through my own healing that I was able to break through that intersection of stigmas that was placed on me,” says Morberg.

<h2>About the Stamina Not Stigma Project: </h2>Drawing on the experiences of a diverse group of islanders who supported each other through the worst days of the AIDS pandemic and evolved with the changing realities of living with HIV, the premise of <a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stamina Not Stigma </a>is to affirm wellness strategies, spotlight the role of peers as community health navigators &amp; educators, and show how these approaches can empower and improve health outcomes for folk facing various health and well-being challenges.Facilitating a series of events and engaging in important conversations over the coming months, the <a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stami</a><a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">na Not Stigma</a> team will invite a dynamic range of individuals, health care professionals, organizational leaders, community elders, and academics to gather and share knowledge and resources. Specific event themes will focus on groups who identify as: BIPOC, Youth, Women &amp; non-binary, and GBT2SQIA+ Men in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Islands" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Southern Gulf Islands</a> region. Representatives from each of these groups will help plan and co-facilitate <a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stamina Not Stigma</a> events.Information covered over the series of events will be shared in a wrap-up presentation for regional health care providers, demonstrating the benefits and challenges that peer-based approaches can have. In many respects, <a href="https://staminanotstigma.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stamina Not Stigma</a> is a project over a quarter century in the making. In 1995, two HIV+ women and a gay HIV+ man joined together to form GIGI, the Gulf Islands Guerrilla Immunologists. Their story evolved into the Southern Gulf Islands AIDS Society (SGIAS), the smallest service organization of its kind in Canada, demonstrating an effective model on how to organize around diverse communities and complex health needs during a pandemic.

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