Commemorating World AIDS Day, a panel discussion featuring multidisciplinary artists Rubén Esparza, Ken Gonzales-Day, and Joey Terrill, and photographer/documentarian Judy Ornelas Sisneros, moderated by art journalist Carolina A. Miranda.

Artists have long raised their voices against injustice. Throughout their careers, the speakers featured in The Broad’s World AIDS Day 2025 program have defiantly and proudly shaped how we see the AIDS crisis along with other pertinent issues. This conversation traces a timeline from the US government mishandling the onset of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, to Proposition 8 for same-sex marriage, the Covid-19 crisis, and repeated attempts to silence and strip rights from LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants, and other marginalized people.