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The Gendered Violence of Stop-and-Frisk
Though racist stop-and-frisk policies have been framed as primarily police violence against men of color (black and Latino men account for 40% of the stops from last year), women and transgender people are also subject to the violence of police frisks on the street....
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Black feminist anti-violence activist, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and INCITE! co-founder, Beth E. Richie, released a powerful new book entitled Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation. Girl Talk will host a...
Break-in and Arson at Offices of Women With a Vision, New Orleans Organization That Advocates for Poor Women of Color
Video from Deon Haywood, Women With A Vision: http://youtu.be/Zp8lEEj1rc4 Article by Jordan Flaherty; reposted from Louisiana Justice Institute with permission Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and...
YWEP to share research findings from the Bad Encounter Line
Please forward widely and forgive duplications Press Release For Immediate Release: Tuesday May 22nd, 2012 Contact: Stacy Erenberg 312 513 1399 Young Women’s Empowerment Project releases their NEW RESEARCH entitled DENIED HELP! How Youth in the Sex Trade & Street...
Medicaid Victory for Licensed Midwives and Pregnant Mamas in Texas!
This week, Mamas of Color Rising sent the following letter to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, thanking them for their decision to make a rules change that adds Licensed Midwives as health care providers under Texas Medicaid. For more than a year, they...
Vikki Law: Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons
A great discussion of the history of community-based responses to violence!
LGBTQ groups come out against Secure Communities!
It’s time for LGBTQ Groups to “Come Out” Against the ICE “Secure Communities” Program! by Andrea J. Ritchie As we celebrate National Coming Out Day – a day to stand up for who we are, honor our individual and collective power, and stand up for what we believe in –...
A Love Letter
Greetings INCITErs, We want to thank all of you for sustaining the work of INCITE! through your organizing, vision and support. Under the guise of national security, our communities, bodies and lives are increasingly threatened with escalating state violence and...
In Defense of Brontez—and the Rest of Us Too Proud or Too Trashy to Go Down Without a Fight
Originally published at Kenyon Farrow's blog; republished with permission. In Defense of Brontez—and the Rest of Us Too Proud or Too Trashy to Go Down Without a Fight by Kenyon Farrow Let me first state that there is no pretense of objectivity or an emotional distance...
No One Is Free While Others Are Oppressed ~ August 6, 2011 SlutWalk Philadelphia Speech
Originally posted at AfroLez®femcentric, reposted with permission. No One Is Free While Others Are Oppressed ~ August 6, 2011 SlutWalk Philadelphia Speech by Aishah Shahidah Simmons...
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