Sharla Steinman

2 months ago | theemancipator.org | Sharla Steinman

This story was first published by Uncloseted Media. Kennedi Lowman thought it was another routine blood donation day. But in a single moment, her life was forever altered — shocked by an HIV-positive diagnosis she never saw coming. “It was scary, heartbreaking, and shameful. Working in medicine and having my degrees, knowing what I knew about STIs. ‘Why me? How me?’” Lowman told Uncloseted Media.

2 months ago | unclosetedmedia.com | Sharla Steinman

Kennedi Lowman thought it was another routine blood donation day. But in a single moment, her life was forever altered—shocked by an HIV-positive diagnosis she never saw coming. Lowman, a 38-year-old Black woman in Atlanta, Georgia, was a medical technologist at the time of her 2016 diagnosis, which came as a total shock.

Oct 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Anvee Bhutani |Sharla Steinman

Columbia University has been a focal point of anger and tensions over the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7 last year and the war in Gaza that has followed. On Monday, the anniversary of the attack, it took on that role once again, as students and faculty held rallies, class walkouts and vigils to mourn the lives lost in both Israel and Gaza.

Oct 6, 2024 | nytimes.com | Anvee Bhutani |Sharla Steinman

Israel commemorated on Monday the first anniversary of the deadliest day in its history, the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 250 others abducted. The anniversary caps 12 months of profound loss and trauma for both Israelis and Palestinians, amid a war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that has become the deadliest in a century of conflict between Arabs and Jews and the longest since the fighting that set the boundaries of the Israeli state in 1949.