Radicals & Revolutionaries Lab

This week’s radical is Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder of SisterLove, a pioneering organization focusing on women’s sexual health and reproductive justice with a special focus on HIV advocacy for women.We discuss Dázon’s roots in Peach County as the child of scientists, her early brushes with political activism, and how the HIV/AIDS pandemic—and how women were overlooked during the early days—has shaped her career.Some Questions I ask:What are you currently working on? (0:56)What does being “a unique and proud product of the Deep South” mean for you? (7:12)Did your parents’ careers plant the seed for your work in reproductive justice? (19:07)What does it mean to be HIV-affected? (25:09)Did you feel called to the urgency of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when you founded SisterLove in 1989? (27:38)Is it true that heterosexual women are the fastest-growing demographic in HIV/AIDS cases, or is this because they hadn’t been properly counted? (44:50)Tell us about the expansion of SisterLove into South Africa (51:51)In This Epi