How is Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano healthy?

My health and healthiness: my being healthy is inextricably tied to the health of my people (read – broad and complex definition of “my people”).

I believe, know and center my spirituality, intellectual work and fucking on the notion and truth that my body carries memory.

Following the schoolings of Cherríe Moraga, Sharon Bridgforth and countless fierce queer women of color, I know that my body today is linked to the bodies of queer brown men from and of generations to come.

As an openly hiv-positive hyper-politicized and hyper-critical queer xicano-identified cisgender man, I know that the virus flowing through my veins is the virus that flowed through the veins of many, many queer men of color who were institutionally and methodically left to die under the shadow of their families denial and a flag built upon values and ideologies that rendered them/me subhuman.

Being healthy to me is about being liberated, following the teachings of womanists and knowing that my body is mine, my body is a place of resistance and knowing that each time I fuck a man he will find Aztlán all over me.

-- Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
San Francisco

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