By bluerasberry on March 12, 2012
On three of us members of the HIV Vaccine Research Unit Community Advisory Board made a video to inform potential new members about what it would mean for them to join our group. The video was to have two purposes – to introduce HIV vaccine research and to introduce the concept of layman meeting in [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, drug, education, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged HIV vaccine, videography
By bluerasberry on July 15, 2010
I went to see Lords of Acid and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Tuesday July 13 at Studio 7 in Georgetown. I listened to them when I was a teenager and it was cool to see them live. The venue sucked and I gave them a bad yelp but both bands were good. [...]
Posted in drug, presentation, Seattle | Tagged concert, dance, music, pop culture
By bluerasberry on September 18, 2009
On Tuesday September 16 from 9-10am immediately before opening I toured Insite’s facility in Vancouver. Insite is an organization which provides a location and equipment for persons wishing to inject themselves with illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine. Insite philosophy incorporates harm reduction models with both humanitarian and economical objectives. Insite for Community [...]
Posted in drug, health, HIV, non-profit, research, rights, Vancouver | Tagged civil rights, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine
By bluerasberry on September 16, 2009
On Thursday September 10 I had my wisdom teeth removed at the University of Washington Medical Center. Since my current job makes me medically insured for the first time in my life, I went for routine dental care and the dentist recommended that I have a panoramic x-ray. That showed that my teeth were impacted, [...]
Posted in drug, health | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2009
I spent Gay Pride this year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center booth recruiting for people who might be interested in receiving an experimental HIV vaccine. The general criteria is that we are looking for people of all genders and sexual orientations who are between the ages of 18-50 and who are willing to [...]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged Gay Pride, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on March 9, 2009
A dear fried of mine named Adam died last week. I had known him since I was about 12 and we were close until I moved away to go to school. I would even say that until that time, we had a lot in common. I still talked to and emailed him after I left [...]
Posted in drug | Tagged civil rights, death, opium
By bluerasberry on July 3, 2008
I attended Gay Pride in Seattle 2008 as a presenter in the non-profit section of the expo. I was representing Sanjeevani Booti as an American agent and I was trying to raise awareness and get social support for issues relating to HIV in India. I talked about Benares. I told people that it was the [...]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, India, Nepal, non-profit, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged expo, heroin, Seattle Gay Pride, volunteer, war, women's rights, youth rights
By bluerasberry on March 31, 2008
Never in my life before I was hired as a counselor did I ever expect to work as a counselor, so I can hardly say that I feel a sense of loss. Free and Clear fired me despite their dire need for employees. I feel like everyone there loved me and certainly everyone followed my [...]
Posted in drug, health, work | Tagged counseling, smoking, test, tobacco
By bluerasberry on December 9, 2007
Last Tuesday I met with Michael Ninberg at the Hepatitis Education Project in the Maritime Building on Western between Madison and Marion. We talked for about two hours about hepatitis and public health and I think he will be a good resource in the future. I want to get all three websites up before the [...]
Posted in drug, education, HIV, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged AIDS, Benares, clinical trial, education center, hepatitis, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on March 16, 2007
Some relative of the family is getting his janeu soon and the plan is to go to a village area some hours away to attend the function. I hear that about five hundred people and more than one full carload of Varanasi candy will attend. I am speaking just a little Hindi and I started [...]
Posted in drug, education, religion | Tagged alcohol, Hinduism, ritual