While the past year has seen remarkable advances in HIV from prevention to policy, the challenges with HIV remain burdened and entrenched among the most vulnerable communities across the United States. Here at Women With a Vision we see this first hand in Louisiana and across the Deep South. As we’ve written about, the South […]
November 14th – 20th marks Transgender Awareness Week, a week where individuals and organizations around the country help to raise the visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming people, and take action by educating the public and advancing advocacy around the issues that transgender people face. The final day of Transgender Awareness Week is the Transgender […]
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 […]
On Saturday, November 15th, 2014, Women With a Vision’s Executive Director Deon Haywood appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry Show to discuss a new report detailing how the New Orleans Police Department failed to properly investigate hundreds of reports of sex crimes. The new report, released last week by the city’s inspector general, found that […]
Don’t miss out on our next Girls With a Pearl event this December 3rd from 4-6pm! Download the December flyer here! For this coming month, the group will be doing vision mapping.