Save the date! Friday March 27th at 4pm is the March meeting for our EMERGE:GroundWork program! This month we will be focused on “Building Your Professional Brand” and will explore resume writing and offer professional development tips. This program is open to sex workers and formerly incarcerated women in the Greater New Orleans area and […]
Sex Workers Benefit From Alternatives to Incarceration in New Orleans
Carla is a young woman in her late thirties. She dropped out of school in the ninth grade, because she “had never done well, so there was no point.” She had her first son not long after that and started dancing to provide for him. “I didn’t have an education or any skills and doing […]
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 […]
Deon Haywood on MHP: Race, Gender and the Harm of the Criminal Justice System
On Sunday, September 29, 2013, WWAV’s Executive Director, Deon Haywood, joined Ari Melber, co-host of MSNBC’s “The Cycle;” Seema Iyer, Legal Contributor at Arise News; and Faith Gay, Attorney for Marissa Alexander, on the Melissa Harris-Perry show. This panel was brought together around two important issues affecting women’s incarceration: first, the announcement of a New York initiative to establish special courts […]
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