Women With a Vision’s Executive Director Deon Haywood will be interrogating the role of social media in the movement for justice when the Tulane University Office of Multicultural Affairs and Gender & Sexual Diversity hosts its final Diversity Convocation panel on October 15th, 2014. The panel will center around the “Clicktivism” movement among youth, the […]
On October 7th, 2014, Women With a Vision joined a coalition of 48 reproductive justice, drug policy reform, women’s rights, and civil liberties organizations in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calling on the U.S. Department of Justice, decrying the enhanced sentencing of a Tennessee woman for being pregnant when she committed a […]
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 […]
Women With a Vision’s Gender-Based Violence Coordinator, Rebecca Atkinson, wrote an Open Letter to Janay Rice, the wife of former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice. Janay’s story came to national attention earlier this month with the release of a video of Ray Rice abusing her in an elevator, igniting a national conversation and media fire-storm […]
As we mark the 9th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Women With a Vision Executive Director, Deon Haywood, speaks to journalist Jordan Flaherty for the Laura Flanders Show, which streams from www.grittv.org. In the interview Deon discusses the state of New Orleans on the ninth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and how it’s all about the takeover […]