Women With A Vision, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition and our Allies invite you to attend the Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference. Location: HYATT REGENCY NEW ORLEANS, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113 Event Dates: The event will take place December 12th and December 13th, 2013. Sign up page: http://www.nchrc.org/news-and-events/events/2013-southern-harm-reduction-and-drug-policy-conference/ Event Contact: In […]
The women and LGBTQ people that WWAV supports continue to bear the scars of the war on drugs, mass incarceration, systemic poverty, HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. This summer, WWAV is bringing together community members to discuss the social justice and structural health issues that affect women and the LGBTQ community in the city most. Download a […]
WWAV’s Executive Director, Deon Haywood, will be part of a select group of 100 human rights defenders to participate in the Seventh Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders. Since our founding, WWAV has known that our work is not just for our participants, or even for women and LGBTQ communities across the South, but for all […]
All of us at WWAV are proud of who we are. As NOLA’s only queer black women-led organization, WWAV has been speaking our truth and fighting for LGBTQ health for more than twenty years. This year, on June 22nd, we’re coming out in force at the NOLA Pride Parade – for our community, for our […]
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 […]