Join TikTok & Instagram Lip-Syncing and/or Singing Social Media Contest
Raise Awareness, Bust Stigma, Win Prizes, Have Fun, and Support Let’s Kick ASS.
The Surprise Diarrhea Lip-Syncing and Singing Social Media Contest is designed to raise awareness about a common condition among people living with HIV that is rarely talked about — chronic and surprise diarrhea.
The contest encourages an online duet with Grammy Award-winner and Tony Award-nominee Jenn Colella, either lip-syncing or singing an original song by Henry Nettleton and Luke Holloway. Hear Jenn Colella sing the song >> https://youtu.be/_Oo3VwbxGD8
BEFORE NOVEMBER 1, 2023. HOW TO ENTER THE CONTEST:
Take your chance to help make a difference to help end the stigma and shame around diarrhea. Your entry can help us raise awareness and support the HIV/AIDS community.
- Create a duet or collab video of you lip-syncing or singing the contest song “Let’s Talk About (Surprise) Diarrhea” with Jenn Colella (song lyrics are available at www.surprisediarrhea.com
- The contest is open to individuals and choruses
- Post your video to TikTok and/or Instagram using the hashtag #SurpriseDiarrhea, and make sure to tag the contest social channels @surprisediarrheacontest on TikTok and/or Instagram
- Finalists will compete in a second round of video submissions featuring a new song
- The contest’s grand finale will take place online November 1, 2023
For every individual or chorus that enters the contest, Napo will make a $100 donation to Let’s Kick ASS until Napo reaches its goal of donating $10,000 to this organization.
Visit the contest social channels @surprisediarrheacontest on TikTok and/or Instagram to enter the contest. #SurpriseDiarrhea
Cash prizes will be awarded to the first and second-place individual winners and the first and second-place chorus winners. The first-place individual and chorus winners will also receive a bidet attachment for a toilet, and all winners will receive a print of a painting by an indigenous rainforest artist.
A donation of $5,000 and a donation of $2,500.00 by Napo on behalf of the first and second-place individual winners, respectively, will be made to a qualifying nonprofit organization chosen by these winners.
To see all contest prizes and rules, click on the link below or here >> letschataboutdiarrhea.com.
Winners will receive prize money, bidet toilet attachments, and donations directed to qualified charities of their choice.
A donation to the nonprofit organization Let’s Kick ASS — AIDS Survivor Syndrome, which is dedicated to empowering HIV long-term survivors, will be made by Napo on behalf of each individual or chorus that posts a song entry to TikTok or Instagram.
Significant advances have been made in the treatment of HIV. More than half of all people with HIV in the United States are age 50 or older. 25% are HIV Long-Term Survivors. Meaning of the 1.3 million people with HIV in the US, 325,000 are Long-Term Survivors, defined as those who acquired the virus prior to 1996 when life-extending Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART).
An estimated 87% of HIV long-term survivors have experienced chronic diarrhea, and discussions about HIV-related diarrhea rarely take place.
Contest judge Dr. Carlton Thomas is a Mayo Clinic-trained gastroenterologist and LGBTQ+ health and sex education influencer. He is a contributor to Men’s Health magazine and The Advocate and was featured in the New York Times article “How Gay Men Saved Us from MPOX.” His social media work during the MPOX outbreak was recognized by the White House, and he helped formulate rectal pain control regimens that the CDC added as part of their clinical guidance.
“Living with diarrhea that can surprise you anytime is no way to live or love! I’m delighted to be working with Napo and Let’s Kick ASS to raise awareness about this treatable condition,” said Dr. Thomas, “and encourage all performers out there to sing it out and sing it loud and participate in this fabulous contest!”
He has been on dozens of podcasts, including Savage Love with Dan Savage and Trust & Believe with Shaun T. Dr. Thomas is a community influencer with more than 340,000 social media followers internationally and operates a sex-positive social media platform on TikTok and Instagram. He was recently awarded Queerty Pride50 (2023); San Diego Hero of Pride (2023); and Out100 from Out Magazine (2022).
Dr. Thomas is a member of the panel of judges who will help decide the winners of the contest, which runs from September 27, 2023 to November 1, 2023.
“We are excited to kick off this important gut health awareness contest which allows us to raise our voices about surprise diarrhea, a common, life-altering condition that can happen at any time, anywhere, and under any circumstance, and is rarely talked about, let alone sung about,” said Tez Anderson, Founder of Let’s Kick ASS. “The game is on for choruses and all performers who care about dispelling topics that may elicit stigma and shame in our community. See you online for the contest grand finale on November 1, 2023!”
Jaguar Founder, President, and CEO Lisa Conte said, “We look forward to seeing and hearing individual performers and choruses from around the country raise their voices about surprise diarrhea. It’s been a silent condition for far too long for so many reasons, from feelings of embarrassment to exasperation to hopelessness. The time is now to sing it out with humor, with dignity, and help encourage people living with HIV/AIDS to talk to their doctors about how to manage it.”
If you are HIV positive and suffering from diarrhea, chat with your doctor. Finding relief from chronic HIV-related diarrhea is possible. To learn more about HIV-related diarrhea, click here to visit the contest website.
HIV Long-Term Survivor / Writer /Speaker /Activist, Founder, Lets Kick ASS AIDS Survivor Syndrome & HLTSAD June 5 @LetsKickASS_hiv @TezAnderson https://tezanderson.me/ https://hltsad.org https://linktr.ee/letskickasshiv
Yours in resilience
Tez
