[in part]:
Do you read it?
Quality of writing?
Relevance?
Does it represent the face of Aids?
And it usually only features asymptomatic-looking people...like the ones in the drug ads tackling Mt. Everest or whatever with Sustiva in their fanny pack. There's a group of us out there that can't climb mountains and have our functional capacity limited by HIV...but we are never featured or barely mentioned. Relevance of the magazine to me therefore is minimal or nothing anymore. Probably it's geared to people in their 20s or 30s now...I'm older than that and have different interests.
Gary
I read it when I go to the clinic
In recent years that seems to have been replaced by pop culture or silly stuff which doesn't really interest me. And it usually only features asymptomatic-looking people...like the ones in the drug ads tackling Mt. Everest or whatever with Sustiva in their fanny pack. There's a group of us out there that can't climb mountains and have our functional capacity limited by HIV...but we are never featured or barely mentioned. Relevance of the magazine to me therefore is minimal or nothing anymore. Probably it's geared to people in their 20s or 30s now...I'm older than that and have different interests.
I cancelled my subscription & I never read the POZ website. Why should when I get everything I need right here?
The only thing I dont like is that they have alot of gay people, which is fine, but I wish they would show more young, straight, females like me. Other than that, I really like it.
I get it sent to me for free...I cant remember how I signed up for it though....I actually really like it and look forward to getting it each month. I get lots of info and like to read about how all kinds of people are affected by this disease. The only thing I dont like is that they have alot of gay people, which is fine, but I wish they would show more young, straight, females like me. Other than that, I really like it.
Working with photographers, writers, designers and doctors, our team chronicles the HIV epidemic, both in the States and overseas. We publish POZ magazine eleven times a year, POZ.com, Real Health magazine, Combocards, and a variety of other health care resources. POZ is published by Smart + Strong, a division of CDM Publishing, LLC.
I've never read it. I'm not sure where I would even find an issue.
Matty the Damned can only give a foreigners view of Poz magazine, but then it does claim to be a journal of record for the pandemic both in the states and overseas.
As I said in the other thread, I think Poz is cheap, glib and sleazy. Not in production terms but with reference to content. It's articles seem to be light handed puff pieces or patronising undergraduate efforts (eg the latest editions articles on Jamaica) which represent a "face" of AIDS that exists only in the minds of the senior editorial staff.
It's pretty clear that the leadership of Poz magazine want to re-invent a pandemic that is neat, clean, attractive and well managed. Not lipo'd, disabled and unattractive.
The inconvenient face of AIDS need not apply.
MtD
I find it highly enlightening that POZ is supported by Big Pharma, who has much at stake in perpetuating the whole "HIVlite" image of AIDS, even to the ridiculous point of suggesting that living with HIV need never effect either your bank account or your reflection in the mirror.
As such, the cranky, sallow-faced first-generation of guinea pigs are the last people anyone would want representing the front-line of a customer base. Such quasi-successes as we are indeed "inconvenient faces".
Come to think of it, there are a LOT of med ads in Poz. I haven't gotten in since 2006, and I don't really miss it a whole lot. I agree that the new ads for medication seems to be all these people who are on the adventure of their lives. That definitely doesn't fit most of us long term survivors. I find this a bit insulting.
more Vogue than virus.
The above is what is listed in the About Us section of the magazine (http://www.poz.com/aboutus.shtml (http://www.poz.com/aboutus.shtml)) which is what is normally considered the Mission Statement of a publication.
I was a little taken back by how little they offer about their mission.
Maybe it is too general and generic, but something does bother me about it. Maybe because it talks more about how often it is published, who it is published by and what else they publish then what they are writing about is the issue in my mind.
I don't know.
But something just feels wrong to me about that being their Mission statement.
Something.
It's sort of like Stepford AIDS or something.
But I do skim it when I go to the ID clinic. Primarily to look at the drug ads. I like to look at them, for some bizarre reason.
Stepford AIDS is a good description.
Or HIVneyland. It's HIV without all those pesky, farting, vomiting, MRSA infected people with the funny looking faces, bellies, and backs. Just look at the covers. They're HOT, they're HIP, they're PROFESSIONALS, they're STRAIGHT, they're GAY, they're WOMEN, they're MEN, but they are never, ever, UGLY, or frail, or sick looking.
Here's me when I had my MRSA last month.
It has cover written all over it.
It's sort of like Stepford AIDS or something.
Ya youre probably right,
After reading this and the other thread about the general opinions on POZ magazine I really have to wonder if they ( Poz Magazine ) werent hoping to gain some ' Street Credability' by purchasing AIDSmeds,
Just look at the covers.
Does it represent the face of Aids?
Larry Kramer is the face of AIDS? Fuck that, I'm changin' to Hep C.does that mean you would prefer to be associated with anita roddick and pamela anderson? matty i thought more highly of you than that! ;)
Pamela and Matty the Damned share two things:
1. Big white tits;
2. An impressive capacity for cock.
:)
MtD
whizer you missed the point but you also managed to miss the point while being a "shock jock" at the same time. i didn't ask to see your skin problems. the point is candles, darkness. more candles, less darkness
*snip*
The recent cover was void of any depth and purely a puff piece. There are much more deserving people and issues to be highlighted on the cover.
Thank you for the response, Peter, and thank you for the clarification. I honestly had no idea you were active yourself in the publication of POZ magazine.
Bucko -- just to clarify, I'm not a staff person with POZ Magazine. I'm the founder of AIDSmeds.com, which is owned by Smart+Strong, which also owns POZ Magazine, Real Health Magazine, POZ.com and realhealth.com. I am considered part of the senior management team at Smart+Strong, but only because I lead one of it's websites. I certainly try to keep my ear to the ground with what's going on at POZ Magazine, and offer my advice from time to time (along with story ideas), and I have a blast working with most of it's staff at conferences, etc. In my mind, they are an amazing team that's really committed to putting out a magazine people living with HIV can learn from and be inspired by, and a magazine that at times might provoke its readers to think about the varied issues we all deal with.
Peter
Your Majesty,
Matty the Damned is loathe to correct royalty, but he has never been blessed with Hep C. There were a couple of near misses, but so far he's dodged that bullet.
;)
MtD
This, as far as I can tell, has been forgotten.
Naw, I remember it clearly! ;)
I guess my post stems from the other thread but Peter said if anything else was to be said to post it here so....
I will not take back anything I said in my previous posts in the other thread. I will not back peddle but as I said before, I have nothing personal against Jesse, none of my post said that, what I have a problem with was some of the things he said in the article and on his MySpace blog. And before anyone decides to throw up quotes about me referring to him as flaming, well I do, sorry, read some of his previous posts, what would you think? And like I said I have nothing against flaming queens, I think they are cool. I mean I thought opinions were like assholes everyone has one. Yeah, I'm full of cliches, I know.
On to the Poz Mag staff. Just like everyone else, I thought they could have done better. As Peter has stated, he told them not to respond to the posts and for us to send email. True, I could do that and understands why Peter said not to, emotions were running a bit high, mine included. But sending an email just to have no reply seems a bit empty to me and more like a one sided conversation. And to me, I would feel like I am being ignored and I must admit I have a problem with not being acknowledged. It's like saying, " I see you but be gone" That just doesn't sit well with me. I know the staff has read the other thread but thinks it would be nice to at least start a thread or send Peter their side of the story and what they think of the responses in the other thread and he post it in a thread and then lock the thread so there can be no responses. I mean work with me, please. I don't expect it to go down like I requested but it would be nice to be acknowledged....Just saying....
Modified to add: Just read over what I said. Yeah, there could be responses by starting a new thread but you can only beat a dead horse so long...Would someone really do that? I guess they would. I guess I answered my own question....Must be smoking some that weed that makes you think harder..... ;D
Oh... please. Do you REALLY think it's that simple?
Color me flabbergasted.
I'm not talking about the issues raised in the shitstorm. Those are very complex.agreed in entirety
However, I'm not entirely sure that this forum would have been so engaged in that particular article if we weren't quite literally directed to the cover story.
I hardly ever look at Poz's internet content, much less have anything to say about it. Most people don't seem to post too much about Poz articles, unless it relates to treatment news.
Yes, I think this particular issue was a catalyst for discussing a lot of problems people have with Poz... but I don't think that there's anything particularly grabbing about the article per se that would have made me click on the link if I hadn't been told to by the subject of the cover story.
Does that make sense?
Does that make sense?
also agreed in entirety
which brings me to conclude that the two of you are basically saying the same thing
unless im wrong
in which case i think a combination of what both those guys are saying...whatever that is ???
Well, 19 year olds with glittery myspace pages and Anna Nicole signature imagery ARE part of the HIV diaspora.in the nicest possible way, i sometimes wish that we could choose who we are comrades in this disease with.
That's my larger point.
in the nicest possible way, i sometimes wish that we could choose who we are comrades in this disease with.
now that will really confuse people - 'poz girl thinks it should only happen to nice people who make sense'
hoping you get what i mean
I actually think edfu said it best about that issue a couple of days ago
http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=14852.msg187293#msg187293 (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=14852.msg187293#msg187293)
Only if you live in a fantasy world where you actually expect to personally like every person who will appear on the cover of a glossy mag.To answer your rhetorical question: Nope, I don't
We should all be mindful that we don't chose our family members, be they by blood line or by disease line. These are simple concepts.ouch
As someone who has reconciled greatly in the past few years with his blood family I will state that letting go of parochial desires for an echo chamber have made me a better person.
most of us arent pretty, and there isnt a person knocking at the door to interview/photogragh us...
It is what it is.. as lame as it may be sex sells... (dude had no underware on)
Too bad they dont get it...
fuckers
ouch
obviously you didnt get what i meant
ps im old enough to know that not only do wishes not come true but also that you should be careful what you wish for. i wrote with awareness of these facts, but also with a wish that people could use their situation for the better of themselves and others
pps hoping that those who know me also think im always receptive to hearing others' points of view even if they arent the same as my own, and that im already an ok person, but one who is still striving to become better (and never thought her desires would be described as parochial)
You just reflected what I think so many others are thinkingdoes this mean i should be poz cover material??!!... :P
This thread is raising my anxiety levels and I wish I had some klonopin.
I actually think edfu said it best about that issue a couple of days ago
http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=14852.msg187293#msg187293 (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=14852.msg187293#msg187293)
i have some.. you are more than welcome to have. :)
bry
because sharing is caring.. unless its a dirty needle, then its not so nice. :(
If I had known how popular this was, and we were together, I'd gladly share. I've managed to squirrel away around 240 1 mg. clonazepams (generic). Rx reads to take 3 a day, but I take only 1 a day. Psychiatrist says it has a huge half-life. I only wish it made me feel what everyone else obviously experiences, because I don't feel anything particularly noticeable. I've tried taking 3 mg. for insomnia, and even that doesn't work!
Sure, but we're at opposite ends of the east coast. I'm curious, though. Can you describe what it is that you feel from it? Just a stoned feeling? Euphoria? Relaxed? Sexy? What? Sure it's your ears that perked up?
...talk about hijacking a very important thread.
If I had known how popular this was, and we were together, I'd gladly share. I've managed to squirrel away around 240 1 mg. clonazepams (generic). Rx reads to take 3 a day, but I take only 1 a day. Psychiatrist says it has a huge half-life. I only wish it made me feel what everyone else obviously experiences, because I don't feel anything particularly noticeable. I've tried taking 3 mg. for insomnia, and even that doesn't work!
But mixed with booze, it kicks you to the floor...not that I would.
Barbara please -- grind it up and snort it. It's like inhaling ice cubes but it will have you digging holes in the wood floors. Trust!
Why don't you shove em up your poopers. Heaven knows that where everything else you love ends up. Ends up....unintended funny.
See, snorting only lets you get a small percentage of the drug, ingesting orally gets you about 90%.
Snorting hits you faster, but we wanted buck, not bang. Or something. ;)
Oh... please. Do you REALLY think it's that simple?
Color me flabbergasted.
Invite commentary and you might not get the response you expect.
For the record, it is kinda that simple. I saw the article on the poz website before reading the thread here. I didn't know jesse was a member until after that. I wasn't influenced at all by any of his prior activity here in the forums.
Something about this all seems very similar to the whole CSI thing. Great idea. Poor execution, delivery and content.
Nor does Sanchez have gay teenagers for friends or lovers—and he doesn’t particularly want any. “The young gay guys, they hate on you,” he says. They discriminate against “feminine” men, he says, just like the straight boys in fifth grade PE class who called him a fag. (“I’m not the butchest thing ever, but I’m not a flamer,” says Sanchez.)
brackets my dear. brackets.
yes, dear- brackets. i know what they are. i just don't get what your motive was in using them because in doing so you changed the intention of his words- and then built up a giant missive based on that.
Actually they're parentheses not brackets. ::)
MtD
No quite correct, Matty the Damned is still waking up. Blurred vision etc. Continue Youth Pastor Tim!
MtD
(why do i feel like miss south carolina all of the sudden?)
well, let's ask him then.
Who'd be curious to hear what Miss S Carolina thinks of Poz magazine
In her absence Jeff, you make an excellent substitute. ::)
MtD
ask who? jesse?
i think it's pretty clear from the context of the rest of the paragraph that he didn't intend any slight toward feminine gays.
if still in doubt, just look here:
http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=14599.0 (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=14599.0)
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Milker. Tralala.
(_|_)Yer a bit tight, mister.
I like these cheeks better.
Yer a bit tight, mister.
Rest of the paragraph? That was the end of the paragraph. As for the picture, that's irrelevant and does not bring any context. If you want to rehash everything, we can. Wouldn't it be better to wait on regan?