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A while back, I had asked if anyone could tape the documentary "The Gift" for me. (A warning about the link-it's got some slightly explicit pictures, including a naked penis, so you may want to think about clicking.)
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indyansel my co-workers love you.
The movie, being about an hour long, was perfect for lunchtime viewing. So we rolled the VCR into our conference room, and put the move on.
Lunch took somewhere between 2.5 and 3 hours. We're still talking about it today. The film itself was intense, scary, and difficult. Several interviews with "bugchasers" were intermixed with video of a support group for men who were HIV+ and had cardiac complications as a result of their medication, and a few other things. The one word we keep using to describe the movie is "intense." And it was. But it also brought out incredible discussion about things we really don't talk about, and gave us a chance to look at some of the major shortcomings in HIV prevention work. About how it's hard to talk about the work that HIV negative people have to do to stay HIV negative. About how we say "Have a conversation about condoms, monogamy, safer sex, whatever" but we don't necessarily teach people how to have that conversation. [1] We talked about our own conflicts with behavior and choices. We talked about risks we ourselves take, and how we rationalize and justify them to ourselves. We talked about oral sex. We talked about homophobia, self esteem. We talked about parents who have a hard time talking about sex with their children. We talked.
And the movie is worth your hour.
[1] I suspect that a lot of my negotiation skills workshop will be geared towards that end.
indyansel my co-workers love you. The movie, being about an hour long, was perfect for lunchtime viewing. So we rolled the VCR into our conference room, and put the move on.
Lunch took somewhere between 2.5 and 3 hours. We're still talking about it today. The film itself was intense, scary, and difficult. Several interviews with "bugchasers" were intermixed with video of a support group for men who were HIV+ and had cardiac complications as a result of their medication, and a few other things. The one word we keep using to describe the movie is "intense." And it was. But it also brought out incredible discussion about things we really don't talk about, and gave us a chance to look at some of the major shortcomings in HIV prevention work. About how it's hard to talk about the work that HIV negative people have to do to stay HIV negative. About how we say "Have a conversation about condoms, monogamy, safer sex, whatever" but we don't necessarily teach people how to have that conversation. [1] We talked about our own conflicts with behavior and choices. We talked about risks we ourselves take, and how we rationalize and justify them to ourselves. We talked about oral sex. We talked about homophobia, self esteem. We talked about parents who have a hard time talking about sex with their children. We talked.
And the movie is worth your hour.
[1] I suspect that a lot of my negotiation skills workshop will be geared towards that end.