WTUL News and Views spoke with Women With A Vision this morning about the ignored and suppressed history of the Reproductive Justice struggle, how the voices and issues of women of color have been oppressed and criminalized, and what criminalization and justice look like in the age of Renisha McBride, Marissa Alexander, and countless others. […]
Women With a Vision’s Program Assistant, Mwende Katwiwa wrote a blog post entitled, Violence, the Black Body, and Reproductive Justice, exploring the historical legacy of violence against black bodies and linking it to our struggle for Reproductive Justice. Read and share here!
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs is holding their annual Regional Training Academy in New Orleans this year! Co-sponsors and local hosts of the event are BreakOUT!, along with support from Women with a Vision, Inc. and the LGBT Community Center of New Orleans. Join us for an all-day mini conference on talking through strategies […]
Too often the stories, work, and activism of Black women and other women of color are erased, invisibilized, and co-opted. That’s been true of the “rewriting” of the reproductive justice movement, a movement founded more than two decades ago by Black women and other women of color wanting to use a broader framework to explain […]
Women With a Vision, New Orleans Trystereo Syringe Distribution, and NO Overdose Baton Rouge are working toward providing harm reduction resources and policy advocacy across the state of Louisiana. Let us keep you connected to legislative news and action alerts with our new joint newsletter! Sign up to receive them at: nolaharmreduction@gmail.com. And download the […]