Meet the Herpes Goddess

Brut America

"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.

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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

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