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2009-11-21 | Sonoma State University Associated Student Productions

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Free Pizza Comedy Series
@ 8:00pm in Student Union Pub

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Saturday, November 14th

November is set to rock with "The White Tie Affair"
@ 8:00pm in the Commons

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Wednesday, November 18th

Be Heard: Talking about Mental Health
@ 7:00pm in Cooperage

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Thursday, November 19th

ASP FREE Black light Pool!
@ 9:00pm Buffalo Billiards in Cotati

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Wednesday, December 2nd

Does HIV Look Like Me
@ 7:00pm in Cooperage

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Thursday, December 3rd

How to be a Community Organizer from the Bottom Up
@ 7:00pm Cooperage

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Does HIV Look Like Me
Event: Does HIV Look Like Me
Date: Wednesday, December 2nd
Time: 7:00pm
Where: Cooperage
Admission: Free to all

Associated Students Productions is proud to present a new way of looking at HIV on Wednesday December 2. During 2009's World AIDS week, the "Does HIV Look Like Me" program will take place in the Sonoma State University Cooperage at 7:00 pm. Admission is free and the event is open to both SSU students and the general public.

Entering almost 30 years of living in a world plagued with HIV and AIDS, the need for a program featuring the faces of the affected youth is far past overdue. Hope's Voice International is an HIV and AIDS non profit organization devoted to promoting HIV and AIDS awareness within the young adult population. Hope's Voice International's goal is to empower HIV positive youth to be leaders in educating their communities and in turn to help change the negative and hopeless image that the media has previously created for the HIV positive population.

The speaker chosen from Hope's Voice is a young woman named Christina Rock who has struggled with being HIV positive since birth. The stigma of HIV affects all who are infected and perhaps the saddest part of Christina's story is she had no choice in the matter. Growing up with HIV shaped Christina's social interactions within the classroom as well as outside of it. In the dating world, Christina talks about how hard it is to live with HIV and offers advice on the right time to inform potential boyfriends and girlfriends about being HIV positive. Christina focuses on the American HIV epidemic within her lecture in an attempt to show that the problem is still very real in the non third world. With HIV on the rise, Christina's personal experience sheds light on exactly what it is like to live with a disease that currently has no cure.

For more about Christina Rock please visit- http://www.hopesvoice.org/speakers-christina.php Come and hear Christina's story, while learning about prevention and ways of becoming part of the HIV Awareness Movement.