Dázon Dixon Diallo

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This week’s radical is Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder of SisterLove, a pioneering organization focusing on women’s sexual health and reproductive justice with a special focus on HIV advocacy for women. We discuss Dázon’s roots in Peach County as the child of scientists, her early brushes with political activism, and how the HIV/AIDS pandemic—and how women were overlooked during the early days—has shaped her career. Some Questions I ask:<ul><li>What are you currently working on? (0:56)</li><li>What does being “a unique and proud product of the Deep South” mean for you? (7:12)</li><li>Did your parents’ careers plant the seed for your work in reproductive justice? (19:07)</li><li>What does it mean to be HIV-affected? (25:09)</li><li>Did you feel called to the urgency of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when you founded SisterLove in 1989? (27:38)</li><li>Is it true that heterosexual women are the fastest-growing demographic in HIV/AIDS cases, or is this because they hadn’t been properly counted? (44:50)</li><li>Tell us about the expansion of SisterLove into South Africa (51:51)</li></ul> In This Episode, You Will Learn:<ul><li>What people don’t realize about running a nonprofit (5:18)</li><li>What it was like to be part of the first generation of integrated students (12:28)</li><li>How Dázon’s parents nurtured a deep understanding of sexual health (14:55)</li><li>Why the term “broken family” is outdated and incorrect (22:45)</li><li>How losing her first job led Dázon to a career in women’s health (33:47)</li><li>Why getting funding for black women’s health amidst the AIDS crisis was an uphill battle (36:26)</li><li>Why women living with AIDS weren’t properly being diagnosed, and how Dázon fought to change that (42:31)</li><li>Why medical research needs to spend more time dedicated to how infections affect people other than cis men (46:35)</li></ul> Resources:Follow Dázon on <a href="h

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