Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: PrEP Jim Fouratt

Friday, February 12, 2016

Dear HIV - people: Is PrEP worth the risk or cost?

PrEP :Is it worth the risk or cost ?

Please dear HIV - people (meaning healthy) , male and female do NOT take the PrEP bait we are being bombarded by almost everywhere, The drug you will be taking you will be required to take daily is called Truvada, a serious AIDS drug given to people with AIDS to prolong life in those diagnosed with a still fatal disease. Truvada is known to have serious ide effects. It is unknow ast this ealry stage if it has unknown side effects in HIV- individuals. If it works it will only block the possible transmission of HIV . It will not have any effect on any other STD transmission. Practice safe sex. Use condoms , Safe sex works and has a higher chance of blocking the transmission of HIV and any other std including syphilis. Truvada costs approximately $18,000 dollars for most people a month. Its use has been know to encourage a false sense of it's ok to have unprotected sex. Syphilis is out of control in the predominantly gay Chelsea neighborhood of NYC Wear a condom, have your partner wear condom if he refuse. Well as the Act Up women historically chanted: No Glove No Love,

Also beware of men saying they are cured of being HIV + and today are "undetectable" . The science is not clear on what that means ..and HIV has a history of hiding in the body. If you are HIV- don't risk it..

Say No to Truvada and PrEP and YES to safe sex and pleasure ..

Be Safe

Jim Fouratt
AIDS activist since 1982

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.
Yes indeed there is a culture war going .. but you know that if you have arrived here. We suggest that you put theory into practice by taking virtual you and virtual ideas into the reality of real live physical and cognitive action.

MEANING: get up and out of your chair and do something physical in real time. OCCUPY YOUR BODY. Be physical.

The fuel is love, compassion and curiosity. Anger is a result of the repression of fear and distances one from compassionate change ... do the Che Che cha cha cha .. or if you prefer the Stiegler tango! or the Shulamith Firestone death metal raga!

PRAXIS is the action of putting into practice the thoughts, theories and desires running through your bio-magnetic, nerve sensitive self. Reality propelled by the friction of input/output.

Damn it, it should be fun !

I will share with you my interaction in the real world and the theoretical world and invite you to do the same.

Politics is an everyday affair. Politics is how we live our lives Every action or non-action we do is a political act. Culture is the expression of desire in public interactive way.

So jump in please.

Join me in participating in life. Making change starts with self and ripples out. Pop culture is where I live ..not in some isolated, white tower, postmodern, distancing intellectual thought or theory. Theory in practice is praxis . It used to be called dialectics .. still a good word even if dressed up in new theory drag.

Serious fun has it consequences including changing the status quo.

We are all at the same life party. Find the door you can come through to make PRAXIS a full time act of creativity .

jim fouratt