By bluerasberry on 2009-06-29
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 2009-03-09
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 2008-07-03
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 2008-03-31
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 2007-12-09
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 2007-03-16
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
By bluerasberry on 2007-02-07
Let me clarify that Nandan, and Nandan alone, understands my impression of my “disco boy” teacher. I want to convey my meaning. There have been times in my life when I have had friends introduce me to a date or new acquaintance or some person, and I have been able to perceive a quality in […]
Posted in drug, India, rights | Tagged business, gay rights
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-23
I have continually thought that I was making a good recovery from sickness for about one week. In that time I have had no fever and have gone through the day without having abnormal toilet habits, but at night I have also had to wake up and use facilities several times. If I knew that […]
Posted in computer, drug, India, rights | Tagged business, censorship, license, marijuana, opium, police