Love The Voice

Overview

In GEN U, There makes NO DIFFERENCE

Here We See More Than A Segment But All Of You

35 years ago, in 1987, a group of people took action and protested the US government’s ignoring of HIV, just because of the government’s stigma and discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community, with The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

They put the life stories of those who passed away from AIDS on the hand-made quilt to show the world that “human life matters”.

Nowadays, with the development of medicine, people living with HIV take just one pill a day, preventing the disease from turning into AIDS, and have no symptoms. Actually, 80% of people live with HIV already, they are U=U (undetectable = untransmittable). Despite this, once people admit they are living with HIV, often the public, and sometimes even their very own selves, still hold onto stigma and refuse to build connections and treat them(selves) equally.

This situation not only describes people living with HIV, but also so many other marginalized identities that have been limited by stereotypes including gender, race, finance, sexuality, family, religion, value, job, health and more.

Therefore, we collected more than 356 self-portraits from Taiwan no matter who they are and what their story is. We want to shout out to the public that you can not identify who is living with HIV or who has what kind of background, only judging by their appearance. We are all human, there are no differences – living with ups and downs and our own issues. Most importantly, we live and share our own stories.

Understanding, inclusion, and equity are all we need to create a better life quality together.