"We Are Born in Flames": WWAV Joins Forces With Patois Film Fest to Screen Lizzie Borden Classic

Women With a Vision, Inc. is excited to partner with Patois: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival for their very first screenings of the year, a weekend of films by Lizzie Borden. These screening are part of Patois’ Community Film Series, a string of free film screenings focused on social justice issues. The […]

Rebuilding Our Archive: The “Born In Flames” Oral History Project with WWAV Board Member, Laura McTighe

After the 2012 aggravated arson attack on our offices, we lost more than our home and sense of safety in the city we love; we also lost all the tangible memorabilia of our more than twenty years of work. In the wake of this attack, WWAV sustained our rebuilding process by making new memories – […]

Victory at Last! Louisiana Will Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry

Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  When WWAV started this fight five years ago, we were told that we couldn’t win […]