"I thought, 'I'm a single mother with herpes. No one's ever going to want me.'"
Then she changed the narrative and became the Herpes Goddess.
Then she changed the narrative and became the Herpes Goddess.
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00:00Every time a woman shows she's comfortable in her own skin. She inspires another woman to be comfortable in hers
00:10You don't know what an STI panel looks like you can never do a raw diet
00:18But you love some processed food, but because I have herpes my pussies dirty
00:25Interesting
00:26I'm going to war with the herpes stigma until my comfort my community can feel comfortable
00:33About their status and proud of their sexuality
00:42To use the word dirty
00:44towards a community of people
00:47That can't help the fact that they have the herpes virus
00:50It's unfair and it feels the stigma a lot of women within the community and men as well
00:57The day they find out that they have herpes
01:00Immediately they feel dirty immediately. They start to say I feel dirty. No one would ever want me
01:21Herpes is not limited to someone who is
01:26promiscuous
01:27There's people within the community that's been in 20 plus year marriages and just found out that they had herpes
01:36There's a girl who's been with her fiance for nine years and because she got pregnant
01:41She just found out she had herpes
01:45children can get herpes from
01:48Adults kissing their children or
01:51Children playing with each other because children like to put everything in
01:55Their mouth you can get herpes in a relationship out of a relationship. I
02:09Have what I thought was a
02:11Very painful razor bump, but because if it was so painful
02:15I wanted to go get it checked on when I went to go get my razor bump check. The doctor told me it was a
02:22razor bump
02:23She said it's a razor bump. You have nothing to worry about and I'm like, it's just too painful
02:28This is not making me comfortable. So I insisted that she take a culture of the area
02:35She did just to make me feel better
02:37And then later on I kind of forgot about it
02:41Usually they call you if something is wrong, and I never got that call. So I'm like, okay. It was a razor bump. I'm fine
02:48It wasn't until I started to have symptoms of pregnancy that I went back to see my doctor
03:03I thought I'm a single mother with herpes
03:06No one's ever gonna want me
03:11I'm not gonna be able to
03:14Find the relationship I want I'm gonna have to lower my standard my standards. I'm gonna have to settle I
03:22Would even lead into herpes disclosure telling somebody that was interested in that
03:28You're not gonna want me and it'd be like why because I have herpes
03:36I
03:38Wanted to change that narrative for myself
03:42I didn't know why I was equating my worth to herpes, which means was I worth only sex
03:49So I had to go on a journey with myself to figure out my worth
03:53Figure out who I was to feel like myself again. I
04:00See a lot of negativity from the younger generation or
04:05Some of the men the negativity is it comes from ignorance it comes from miseducation it
04:14Comes from
04:17Being triggered some things I may say might ring true for some people and they can't handle it
04:23So they may react negatively instead of taking accountability
04:27For why they feel the way they feel or why my post made them feel away
04:34You
04:41Go get tested you have to ask to be tested for
04:46HIV HPV
04:48HSV and hep B. They're not usually included in your average STI panel