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Parents tried to stop their teenage kids from accessing info that could save their lives.
These parents
said they’d physically stop us attending a talk at a youth club.
Of course, they were just showing their Christian (sic) concern.
#ItsASin
5/11
These parents
said they’d physically stop us attending a talk at a youth club. Of course, they were just showing their Christian (sic) concern.
#ItsASin
5/11
And so we got snuck into back doors of youth groups and education centres to chat with teenagers who wanted to know about sexual health.
The staff in youth centres were the heroes - they put their jobs on the line for those young people.
#ItsASin
6/11
The staff in youth centres were the heroes - they put their jobs on the line for those young people.
#ItsASin
6/11
Police arrested sex workers for carrying condoms.
If you find that hard to believe - it still happens today. Carrying condoms is still used as evidence of doing sex work.
We need to do better - and decriminalise sex work.
#ItsASin
7/11
If you find that hard to believe - it still happens today. Carrying condoms is still used as evidence of doing sex work.
We need to do better - and decriminalise sex work.
#ItsASin
7/11
The HIV prevention needs of people who inject drugs were consistently undermined globally.
Activists still continue to provide needle exchanges and access to safer drug use facilities. Yet authorities do all in their power to undermine this health promotion.
#ItsASin
8/11
Activists still continue to provide needle exchanges and access to safer drug use facilities. Yet authorities do all in their power to undermine this health promotion.
#ItsASin
8/11
When condoms weren’t allowed in prisons, activists catapulted them over prison walls.
There’s more about this kind of activism here - https://www.werageon.com/react/catapulting-condoms
#ItsASin
9/11
There’s more about this kind of activism here - https://www.werageon.com/react/catapulting-condoms
#ItsASin
9/11
In the 90s lots of HIV prevention involved outreach in public toilets and parks.
Police crack downs made that work harder or impossible.
Activists posted warning sign + stuck chewing gum over police peep-holes. Arrests stopped temporarily.
#ItsASin
10/11
Police crack downs made that work harder or impossible.
Activists posted warning sign + stuck chewing gum over police peep-holes. Arrests stopped temporarily.
#ItsASin
10/11
That activism, often messy, usually exhausting, kept people alive.
It saved lives when we faced hostility and intransigence.
We were never silent. We must never be silent.
#ItsASin
11/11
It saved lives when we faced hostility and intransigence.
We were never silent. We must never be silent.
#ItsASin
11/11
