August 2005

Tara Perkins:

I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my ten years of experience as a colleague of Long Hair David. I first met David when I was 19, and was just becoming involved in community organizing and social justice activism. At the time, David was running the Olympia Aids Prevention Projects (OAPP). OAPP had several harm reduction programs, including a needle exchange and a youth peer-to-peer outreach center. I began working with the youth program, where we spent weekend evenings doing volunteer street outreach distributing safer sex materials, bleach kits, hygiene kits, and . . .