The Brazilian artist and researcher Linga Acácio adopted the term convivência [cohabitation] and she has explored complexity and stratification through the prism of her seropositivity. She has thus analysed its etymological meaning “living with” in the context of social relationships of dominations and oppressions, with their resulting violence. But convivência does not just mean living with others, it also means living with yourself and creating spaces for the survival of the living. But above all it is the struggle against serophobia: “living with” means thinking through shifts, phases and relations amid the deadly effects of a Western way of conceiving modernity.