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 […]
This week Women With a Vision, Inc. Executive Director Deon Haywood joined an array of racial justice activists from across the country at the Facing Race National Conference being held in Dallas, Texas, November 13-15, 2014. The conference is presented by Race Forward, and will feature plenaries, workshops, sessions, and panels on racial justice issues […]