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 […]
News Reports Continue to Incorrectly Link Increased Sex Trafficking to Large New Orleans Events
Women With a Vision has a long commitment to fighting for the human rights protection of street-based sex workers and their families, addressing the needs of women impacted by laws and policies that make them unsafe, and that put them at risk for violence, stigmatization, and marginalization. WWAV believes that sex workers’ rights are human […]
Rewatch Deon Haywood on MHP's Super Bowl Special!
On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Women With a Vision’s Executive Director Deon Haywood appeared on msnbc’s Melissa Harris Perry Show on a panel entitled, “Sex, Money, and the Super Bowl,” alongside guests Dave Zirin, Sports Editor at The Nation, Joy Reid, Managing Editor of TheGrio.com, and Yamiche Alcindor, National Reporter at USA Today. WWAV was […]
The Myths Surrounding Sex Work and the Super Bowl
In the lead up to the Super Bowl, news report after news report have used the fear of prostitution to perpetuate what has long been shown to be an urban myth — the idea that there are intricate networks of sex workers that descend upon cities for large sporting events, a concept furthered by the […]
WWAV Joins the World in Calling For Sex Workers' Safety and Rights
Today Women With a Vision wishes to join sex worker allies and advocates from around the world in recognizing December 17th, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The day of recognition was founded in 2003 by the Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP), and it is a day met with actions, events, and […]
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