Visibility, empowerment and activism. Art holds for us many values; it is aesthetic, emotive, psychological and political.

Recently, my friend 'Peta' rang me in a panic. She’d hooked up with a guy she met off Tinder and didn’t use a condom. Being on the pill, pregnancy wasn’t her worry. It was the thought that she’d 'caught something' from her hook-up.

I stand before you today, to honour and remember Prof David Cooper, who I’ll refer to hereafter as Coops.

For anyone, the negotiation of relationships can be tricky. But for people living with HIV, we usually find an extra layer of complexity.

As a straight 19-year-old woman who went to a co-ed religious boarding school, our sex education was definitely subpar.