Dr. Leisha McKinley-Beach

That's it.

That's a loaded question.

Obviously, it triggers something in me because I think about it from the reverse, that for decades in this movement, Black women have been out here advocating and serving and protecting and all of the above in HIV for folks who don't look like them, who don't love like them.

And so now we're at a moment where we're saying,

We need folks to do the same for us.

We need folks to be standing up to advocate for sexual health services, not having to face medical stigma.

Because oftentimes I hear from women who have been successful at getting PrEP, they talk about all the hurdles that they had to face in

to be able to get it.

I went to the doctor and the doctor said, oh, you don't need that, right?

So I go see another doctor and the doctor says, oh, well, that's not something for somebody like you, right?

That's for somebody who's promiscuous.

And so I would say that for anybody listening to this and to say, like, this isn't my fight.

This has nothing to do with me.

It has everything to do with you.

We all deserve to have access to the preventative services that's available to us.

Whether we are talking about PrEP for sexual health, whether we're talking about metformin for diabetes, some of these preventative measures, we don't always have access and we should not be in places where

We have to become our own health advocate to get what everybody else has available to them.

I'm not even going to define it as safer.

I'm going to define it as pleasurable.

And and that's what I'm going to center in 2026 and ensuring that anyone under the sound of my voice has a pathway to get to that pleasure.