Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I think a lot of people never really learned that, though, because "people like me are going to be okay" or "if I stay away from X group of people as partners, it will be okay" are more comforting than "there's a reason we say 'safer sex' rather than 'safe sex.'"

In the 2000s, I had to explain a doctor in the Bronx why I wanted an HIV test--and on the way home from that appointment, was at a bus shelter with Spanish-language ads urging people to get tested. But apparently my doctor, practicing where she did, still defaulted to the idea that a middle-class white woman married to a man wasn't at risk.