We Are HYPE

Our resistance is a landmark, not a maintenance project. We’re done waiting for the City to care. Here is what we’re up against: 1. 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁: The City has let this site fall apart for years, treating our history as an afterthought. 2. 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Their current redesign plan minimizes a national site of remembrance and ignores the HIV+ community they supposedly consulted. 3. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: Councillor Chris Moise is trying to put a fence around the park. We don’t need a cage; we need a sanctuary. We designed 𝘌𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 because the City wouldn't. This is a community-driven vision that actually respects the weight of our loss and the strength of our resistance. This only happens if Mayor Chow and City Council stop this narrow, insulting plan and endorse 𝘌𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 instead. We are asking for a landmark that honours our dead, their legacies, and the experiences of those living with HIV today. Full proposal at the link in bio. Read it and tell the City to do better. theaidsmemorial.ca Design: David / The AIDS Memorial Project Visualizations: @normandthegang [Post by The AIDS Memorial Project]

80% full but there's still room for some new faces! The HYPE Summit is back for 2026. Whether you were diagnosed last month, ten years ago, or born with it, grab this opportunity to meet other young adults who understand what you're going through! Laughter and tears guaranteed. New friends available! Read this far but not HIV-positive? Consider sharing it anyway or passing it along to someone you know who is. This event is life changing and we want everyone to have this opportunity. Help us reach them!

Endorse Echoes, a proposal to restore and enhance The AIDS Memorial. It takes 15 seconds and you will help ensure we never forget their stories ♥️ Link on bio ⬆️

Jon Gates was one of many gay activists across Canada who met the 1980s with the "grit and determination" he describes. He championed HIV treatment equity from Toronto to the African continent, refusing to accept progress that left the Global South behind. We are working to ensure stories like his—and the diverse legacies of the movement—are never forgotten. Help us protect our history and ensure these voices are heard by the city. Endorse the Echoes proposal to restore and enhance The AIDS Memorial at the link in our bio. [Post by The AIDS Memorial Project]

The AIDS Memorial (Toronto) has already been diminished...vegetation left to die, plaques scratched and graffiti'd, its very presence eroded through neglect. Now the City's redesign further reduces it to a passive park feature. Echoes is a community-endorsed framework to restore prominence, expand beyond 3,000 names currently inscribed, and confront the full scale of the 21,000+ lives lost to AIDS in Canada. It reasserts the memorial as the park's anchor - architecturally and morally. Help us honour these lives by granting them the dignity in death they were so often denied in life. Endorse Echoes and tell the City to act now! Link in bio. www.theaidsmemorial.ca [Takeover post by The AIDS Memorial Project] #hiv #aids #hivawareness #aidsawareness #endhiv

📝 Register now — or share this with a poz youth who should be there! Equitable Futures HYPE Forum for Poz ACB Youth Nov 15–16, 2025 Downtown Toronto 💸 Free: hotel (for out-of-town), meals, travel support, and all activities covered 👥 Who: African, Caribbean, and Black youth living with HIV, ages 18–29 This 2-day wellness forum is the first of its kind in Canada, created by and for ACB youth living with HIV. Over one weekend we will: 📚 Learn our rights — plain-language HIV law & healthcare info 🤝 Build community — connect with other poz youth and grow lasting networks 🛟 Get support — real-time referrals for housing, food, health, and social services 🌱 Grow stronger — through healing circles, art therapy, and youth-led spaces At a time of funding cuts and government indifference closing down supports for people living with HIV, this Forum makes one truth clear: real solutions for people living with HIV must be led by people living with HIV. ✊🏾 Poz youth are not an afterthought — we are the driving force in the future of the HIV response. 👉 Register at the link in bio — spots are limited.

🚨 FREE 4-day getaway? If you're living with HIV, aged 18–29, and in Ontario — the HYPE Summit is for you 🤗 Nature, connection, real conversations — all covered: travel, food, lodging. You’re not as alone as you think. People leave this retreat with friendships that last years. 💬 DM us with questions or apply now - link in bio! 📲 Know someone who might need this? SHARE IT 🌲 May 22–25 | Location: Up North

THIS IS THE 2024 EVENT.... Join us for a FREE weekend in Muskoka from June 15th to 18th at a camp reserved just for our group. Everything is free, including transportation, lodging, food, and activities. This event is exclusive to poz youth (ages 16-29) currently living in Ontario, Canada. Click the link in bio to register now!

Check out our guide on how to complete the Canadian government's survey on HIV-related criminal reform. >> 'crim reform' in our Story Highlights Canada is a world leader in the criminalisation and persecution of people living with HIV. The laws are dangerous, ineffective, and not based in science. Over half of the prosecutions involve cases where there was no transmission of HIV. The consensus statement on U=U has been around since 2016. Canada was the first country to formally endorse the statement in 2018 but has done nothing to reform the laws that have been used to unjustly attack people living with HIV. Now is our chance to fix this! 📖 read the guide 📖 📝 complete the survey 📝 🔄 share this post 🔄