#HIVisible

@_matteosedda_ ‘s F U C K M E B L I N D explores the dynamics of a very specific kind of desire. And, without using words, it tells a universal story, one that reflects the experience of countless LGBTQIA+ people throughout history. During Tuesday’s sero-talk at the queer festival @orlandobergamo , Matteo explained how his idea was not only to pay tribute to the work of Derek Jarman, but also to exorcise a personal trauma connected to his own experience of living with HIV. The truth is that this trauma inevitably lives inside all trans*, gay, and bisexual people, regardless of their HIV-status. The AIDS epidemic left a wound in the collective unconscious and in the way we all approach sexuality, even for those who did not directly live through those tough years. The more we’ll be able to confront it together and process it collectively, the more we may learn to recognize when we are driven by vital impulses and by a deep need for connection, and when, instead, we are moved by sexual urges that long for oblivion, dissolution or death. Not that it’s possible to solve the eternal tension between Eros and Thanatos, but still… understanding it a little better certainly can’t hurt. Anyway, huge congratulations @_matteosedda_ @margherita_scalise oneclaphand @men_in_pain 🔥👏 📹 In the video: the experimental version created in collaboration with the @antwerpqueerchoir , presented at the @toneelhuis during #ArtistsAgainstStigma 2024, the HIV&Art festival organized by @hiv_isible and @antwerpqueerartsfestival 📷 Reel cover photo by Festival ORLANDO 2026 © Ludovica Belotti e Carlo Valtellina #ArtivismAgainstSerophobia

Join us this Sunday 30, at the @toneelhuis theatre of Antwerp, at 3PM, for a glorious show against HIV stigma! Tickets for the main stage show are still available >> through link in bio and at the door 🔺12:30 Lunch tickest are Sold Out BUT @raoul.lesmecaniques @andylors20 and @divabeirut will perform for us also in the Theatre Show! See you in a blink! #ArtistAgainstStigma

Why is HIV visibility so important? Because it’s an act of resistance. It’s no longer just you and your virus, but you and the faces of the almost half-century long HIV/AIDS epidemic taking their space in history. 🎤 _ @paula_lovely_gorgeous 🔺 We’re proud to announce Paula Lovely as our very first #ArtistsAgainstStigma Ambassador 🔺 Paula is a singer, drag queen, performance artist, and artivist whose work blends ritual, entertainment, and intimate storytelling to dismantle stigma surrounding HIV. Paula is now based in Reykjavík and their award-winning solo performance GL0RY has been selected and honored at multiple Fringe Festivals for its bold one-on-one format and powerful emotional impact. In 2020, Paula co-created @hiv_isible together with Teresa Fabião ( @una.imune @teresa.fabiao )and Luca Modesti ( @erbaghetta ), a project dedicated to HIV visibility and embodied activism. Through installations, performances, and community engagement, Paula continues to craft spaces where tenderness becomes a tool for resistance and transformation. 🔺🔻🔺🔻🔺🔻🔺🔻 ARTISTS AGAINST STIGMA tickets are available @ queerarts.be / toneelhuis / and @ the link in Bio Join us on Sunday, November 30! The iconic @bourlaantwerpen Theatre will open its doors for a powerful event that brings together art, activism, and community. 🔺The day begins at 12:30 @toneelhuis with a festive Positive Lunch in the foyer, featuring live performances by artists living with HIV and drag allies. 👑 Hosted by drag king @raoul.lesmecaniques , the lunch includes performances by @andylors20 @divabeirut and @basvanderkruk , and a living artwork by @caribemontiel & @lapaetau 🔻🔻 This is followed, at 15:00H on the main stage, by a theatre performance from dancer and choreographer @juanciz , drag singer @leonawinterofficiel , activist @positivelymindfulhiv and performances from @divabeirut @andylors20 and @raoul.lesmecaniques 🎥 Filmmaker @marina_vergueiro presents her film Letters to Myself. 🔺🔺🔺 And the festival continues at @decinema_ Wednesday December 03 at 19:45H with MEET US WHERE WE’RE AT! @visual_aids shorts selection! #ArtistsAgainstStigma #WorldAidsDay2025

Le lendemain de @lanuitpositive , un autre événement festif s'organise contre le VIH. Artists against Stigma rassemblera des nombreux·ses artistes bruxellois·es et internationaux à Anvers. Un festival par et pour les personnes séropositives. Rencontre avec Luca Modesti, l'un des organisateurs. Cette semaine, BX1 se mobilise contre le VIH. Avant le grand concert de La Nuit Positive prévue ce samedi, nous vous proposons chaque jour des informations pour mieux comprendre comment se transmet le virus et comment s'en protéger, ainsi que des témoignages pour mieux combattre les clichés qui touchent les personnes vivant avec le VIH.

🔺 NOVEMBER 30.2025 🔺 12:30 @toneelhuis On Sunday, November 30, the iconic Bourla Theatre opens its doors for Artists Against Stigma, a powerful event that brings together art, activism, and community. 🌺 The day begins with a festive Positive Lunch in the foyer, hosted by drag king @raoul.lesmecaniques The poz lunch includes performances by @missbearbelgium2023 and @divabeirut , performer @basvanderkruk , and a living artwork by @caribemontiel & @lapaetau 🪩 This is followed by a theatre performance featuring dancer and choreographer @juanciz , drag singer @leonawinterofficiel (winner of @theswitch2_mundial & @dragrace_france S3 finalist), and HIV artivist @positivelymindfulhiv from UK. Filmmaker @marina_vergueiro presents her film Letters to Myself, exploring the visibility of women living with HIV. Tickets are available for: 🔺🔺The Positive Lunch (12:30 – 14:00) with artistic interludes plus the Theatre Performance (15:00 – 16:00) 🔺 Theatre performance only (15:00 – 16:00) Artists Against Stigma is organized by @antwerpqueerartsfestival , @hiv_isible , @toneelhuis , and @decinema_ +++ 🔺 DECEMBER 3.2025 🔺 19:45 @decinema_ In collaboration with @visual_aids , De Cinema will screen Wednesday, December 3, the short film program MEET US WHERE WE’RE AT , featuring six works on drug use, harm reduction, and HIV, created by artists from Puerto Rico, Nigeria, Germany, Mexico, Vietnam and Brazil. Tickets available through link in bio. Supported by De Nationale Loterij ;-) #ArtistsAgainstStigma #WorldAIDSday #HIVvisibility #Artivism #WAD2025 #queerantwerp #serophobia #UequalsU #WAD #Antwerp #Drag #Festival #HIV #artivismagainstserophobia #HIVisible #queer #Stigma #community #VisualAIDS #🎥 #💦

Sunday, November 30, the iconic Bourla Theatre in Antwerp opens its doors for Artists Against Stigma. Merging art, activism, and community, this edition features a Positive Lunch in the lavish foyer, followed by a powerful main stage theatre show in the concert hall. During the lunch, guests will enjoy live performances. Your host and first performer is drag king Raoul les mecaniques. Drag queens Ebony Nyota and Diva Beirut will stun you with class acts that range from French superstylish to vibrant and eclectic Lebanese performance. Performer Bas Van der Kruk will combine spoken word and dance, in interaction with the audience. Caribe Montiel & Simon(e) Paetau prepare a feast for your eyes as a tableau vivant with flowers and fruit. The afternoon continues in the main hall featuring international names like dancers Juan Cruz Cizmar & Marcos Arriola, Leona Winter (winner of The Switch Drag Race, Chilean version of RuPaul’s Drag Race). Activist and artist Mel Rattue shares her story as a long-term survivor, mother, and peer coordinator at Positive East in London. Filmmaker Marina Vergueiro joins us with her film, Letters to Myself, which challenges the invisibility of women when discussing HIV, transforming personal stories into collective strength and dialogue. The edition also features a collaboration with Visual Aids. De Cinema will screen “Meet Us Where We’re At”, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis. Commissioned videos by artists in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Nigeria, Germany, and Vietnam journey across a range of spaces revealing the complexity of drug use. Several videos document the visible world of drugs—a harm reduction program in a Berlin park, a night out during Rio’s Carnival—while others reveal private, often hidden spaces where safety is found: bedrooms, underground clinics, and moments of connection between lovers. In the next couple of weeks we will present this powerful parade in more detail. Tickets available through link in bio. Supported by De Nationale Loterij ;-)

Are you keeping up with us darlings? Because we are gonna be loud and queer all year. 👇 OPEN CALL ARTISTS AGAINST STIGMA Artists Against Stigma is, first and foremost, a platform to amplify the too-often silenced voices of artists living with HIV. We prioritise those who speak from lived experience, reclaiming space, visibility and joy in a world that too often ignores or erases our bodies and stories. But keep reading if you're not that person but have a strong connection to these topics. This edition takes place during a POZ Brunch Matinee, and we especially welcome proposals from drag artists and dragtivists — but the call is open to performers of all styles and identities whose work engages with sexual health, stigma and liberation. It is a space of power, creativity and transformation. A space where health is a right, pleasure is not guilt, and art becomes a tool for collective change. We reclaim visibility not as exposure, but as pride. We centre stories, bodies, grief, joy, desire. If you’re sero-involved — through status, care, community or commitment — this is your space. Love you darlings! Keep speaking truth to power! #HIVISIBLE & collab with @toneelhuis

I'm posting this a week after the amazing POSITIF FESTIVAL in Paris, where I got to meet extraordinary people and talk about the complexity of living with HIV. I feel so honored to have received a trophy for my activism! Thank you to @shams.france and to @supersero_ for your trust, love, and brotherhood! HIV/AIDS stories can sometimes be very isolating, lonesome, and destructive. Moments like these where we feel a sense of community are priceless and save lives. Trophy made by @tue_l.amour ❤️ #aidsawareness #aids #HIV #hivawareness #positiffestival #shams #supersero #nino_uncut #leonawinter #paris #singer #singer-songwriter #pillsandwater #gotelit #flowerpower #soeursdelaperpétuelleindulgence #music #livemusic #cabaret #queer #dragqueen #rpdrfrance #electro #soul

Also our #HIVisible @nino_uncut will be part of The Positif Festival @positiffestival - in Paris , May 10 at @la_cite_fertile ! Is gonna be a unique day dedicated to the fight against serophobia! 🔺 PROGRAM: From 11am, enjoy a rich and committed programme free of charge: → Round tables, workshops, café des engagé-es, associative village, exhibition, TROD screening, artistic performances... A space to learn, exchange, have fun and celebrate HIV visibility together. With the participation of Marjorie Mailland from the “Observatoire de la sérophobie” , as well as the founder of the first inclusive mosque ludovicmohamed, the committed designer @coeurnichons and so many other surprises... 🔺From 7pm, it’s time for the cabaret & clubbing night organised by @la.neuvieme , with a crazy line-up: Nicky Doll, Nino Uncut, La Grande Dame, Lolita Banana, Leona Winter, Adrien Fruit, Stan Believe, NeferTrauma, Christophe Madrolle, Mimi, Gaëlle Hamon, Malaise Vagal, Laure Petrie, Leo Von Zbeul, Sattyna, Diva Beirut, Illatonik and many more. → Ticketing linked in the bio! Festival patron @zahiaofficiel Festival host @emily_tante Cabaret host @missallanahstarr 🔺A project supported by @shams.france , @djebelnouaryacine and @supersero_ andreamestre_ @genegryspeerdt @ninasolangerose @thierry_flying_bear ludovicmohamed @nathan_crntf @luisdias06 @thenickydoll @lalolitabanana @lagrande_dame @leonawinterofficiel @adrienfruit @stanbelieve @nefertrauma @christophemadrolle @itsmimi________ @malaisevagal @laurepetrie @gaelle_hamon1 @leovonzbeul @nino_uncut @sattyna @divabeirut @illatonik #positiffestival #HIVisible #serophobie #engagement #lutteVIH #CitéFertile #ShamsFrance #Supersero #LaNeuviemeProduction #dragshow #cabaret #clubbing #inclusion #solidarité #militantisme #festival

ARTIVISTS AGAINST STIGMA @antwerpqueerartsfestival + @hiv_isible network The first art festival against serophobia Powered by @toneelhuis & @de_studio 🔥🔥🔥🔥 @una.imune @nino_uncut @coniglibianchi @theamysha @nabilaboutit @nabilaboutit @yugo_basquiat @brenda.w.aerts @bigdickjudas @veronika.deneuve @dj_dr.t @erbaghetta @tonyallotta @_gayarama_ @teresa.fabiao @marciapoelmanverhasselt 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #HIVisible #ArtivismAgainstSerophobia #UequalsU #UnaImune #ConigliBianchi #undetectable #antwerpqueerartsfestival #WorldAIDSday #Artivism

Today’s the day! Tonight the first festival of art against serophobia - ARTISTS AGAINST STIGMA - takes flight with a proud concert by @nino_uncut and a super World Aids Day Party @ @toneelhuis 🐰🐰🐰 The White Rabbits collective awaits you on Saturday @de_studio // DOORS OPEN AT 7pm // for a workshop that will unlock pleasure and exorcise HIV-related fears + a sensational artivist art exhibition 🔥🔥🔥 To follow @una.imune show by @teresa.fabiao - an emotional examination of her own trajectory of the past 10 years living as a proud visible woman with HIV. You don’t want to miss it @ LINK IN BIO the programmA in detail and sexy tickets! #artistsagainststigma #artivismagainstserophobia #worldaidsday #undetectable #coniglibianchi #HIVisible #unaimune #Antwerp #antwerpqueerartsfestival #antwerpqueer #HIV #UequalsU #WAD #wad2023 #party

We could not be more excited for this! ⚡️ ARTISTS AGAINST STIGMA - Antwerp 1,2 & 3 of December - a 3-day festival to celebrate the proud visibility of people and artists living with HIV. A sexy occasion to remember that we are ALL “HIV-concerned”, and to broaden the perception of this issue - through art 💪 @antwerpqueerartsfestival together with the international artist’s collective @hiv_isible and @sensoapreventiewerk , is bringing to Antwerp a 3 days programmation! 👠 This 1 December - World AIDS Day - and for the rest of the weekend, @toneelhuis @de_studio and @decinema_ will open their doors for music performances, film and talks, + sexpositive workshops and art exhibitions! ✊ The sexual revolution is restarting from HIV. And you want to be part of it! Check the program and get your tickets on www.queerarts.be and the LINK IN BIO ********************* #HIVisible #ArtistAgainstStigma #ArtivismAgainstSerophobia #WorldAidsDay #UequalsU #QueerCommunity #queerantwerp #QueerFestival #ContemporaryDance #empowerment #ballroom #Antwerp #artivism #performance #live @sensoapreventiewerk @nino_uncut @una.imune @its.ninarose @coniglibianchi @bigdickjudas @teresa.fabiao @tonyallotta @erbaghetta @dj_dr.t @yugo_basquiat @nabilaboutit @marciapoelmanverhasselt @veronika.deneuve @brenda.w.aerts @yanisberrewaerts @mickgalliotfabre @cafefoyer.foyer #HIV #Serophobia #HIVStigma #WAD2023 SPECIAL THANKS TO @exaequo.be for the support on the #ConigliBianchi exhibition 💥