Join WWAV for a Webinar on Stigma and Criminalization of Infectious Diseases

Women With a Vision is co-sponsoring a webinar on infectious disease and stigma this Thursday, October 23rd at 1PM CST! Join us! Webinar: Stigma and Criminalization of Infectious Diseases: Building Bridges Across Issues, Communities, and Movements Thursday, October 23, 1pm-2:30pm CT REGISTER TODAY! In our collective focus on HIV and the stigma that accompanies it, […]

WWAV and BreakOUT Co-Sponsor “Out in the Night” screening with the New Orleans Film Festival!

Women with a Vision, Inc. and BreakOUT in collaboration with the New Orleans Film Festival present a screening and discussion of “Out in the Night.” “Out in the Night” is a documentary film by blair dorosh-walther examining the 2006 case of the New Jersey 4, four young, black lesbian friends from Newark who were charged […]

WWAV Joins Coalition of Organizations in Denouncing Enhanced Sentence for Pregnant Woman

On October 7th, 2014, Women With a Vision joined a coalition of 48 reproductive justice, drug policy reform, women’s rights, and civil liberties organizations in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calling on the U.S. Department of Justice, decrying the enhanced sentencing of a Tennessee woman for being pregnant when she committed a […]

Blog: Louisiana Sex Workers Deserve Respect and Options

On September 23rd, 2014, fourteen women were arrested in Baton Rouge following an undercover operation, or what authorities are calling a “prostitution sting.” Read Women With a Vision’s Emerge Program Coordinator’s statement discussing the implications of these arrests for marginalized women in the state of Louisiana and the continued way state and local lawmakers are […]