Build WWAV's Black Feminist Library
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WHO WE ARE
Women With A Vision, Inc. (WWAV) was founded in 1989 by a group of African-American women seeking to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis in New Orleans’ most marginalized communities. Over the last 26 years, WWAV has become New Orleans' premiere women's health and justice project, combining service, advocacy, policy, and research to address the social conditions and injustices that impact our city’s most marginalized women and families.
As the women-centered project in "the incarceration capital of the world," WWAV is also one of the leading voices for criminal justice reform and decarceration across Louisiana and the Deep South. Even after having our headquarters fire-bombed in an aggravated arson attack in 2012, an attack targeting our social change work, we have continued to spread our wings and embrace an intersectional agenda for human rights, health promotion, harm reduction, reproductive justice, anti-violence, and anti-criminalization.
Much of our work is about creating a space for those most impacted by harmful policies to tell their stories and to speak their own truths. We work at the intersections, striving to understand the inner-workings of institutional racism — how white supremacy, classism, hetero-patriarchy, cis-sexism, homophobia, and transphobia link together to prevent marginalized women and their communities from accessing services. We work to bring poor women, Black women, Southern women, and queer women’s everyday struggles into national movements for reproductive justice, decarceration, drug policy reform, economic justice, and LGBTQ rights.
BUILDING OUR BLACK FEMINIST LIBRARY
In 2013, we developed our first Black Feminist Reading list for staff, volunteers, clients, and supporters to garner some understanding of the intersectional nature of our work. In 2016 we will host a physical lending library at our office in Midcity New Orleans, containing many of those books from our recommended reading list. This library will be a resource to our community for anyone wanting to delve more deeply into the issues we work on as a small, Deep South-based grassroots community organization.
The concepts, theoretical frameworks, and stories found in many of the books we use to guide our work offer an important lens in understanding how WWAV sees culturally-specific approaches to healing, violence against women, and reproductive rights for LGBTQ communities, Black women, low-income women, and women of color in a city like New Orleans.
Please join us in fundraising this holiday season to build our lending library! We are raising $1000 through December 31st, 2015 to purchase 50 books for our lending library.
You can see a list of some of the books we will be purchasing here on our Amazon Wish List!
Even $5 will go a long way toward making this vision a reality! Please donate what you can today!
For more about WWAV, visit us at http://wwav-no.org.
Women With A Vision, Inc. (WWAV) was founded in 1989 by a group of African-American women seeking to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis in New Orleans’ most marginalized communities. Over the last 26 years, WWAV has become New Orleans' premiere women's health and justice project, combining service, advocacy, policy, and research to address the social conditions and injustices that impact our city’s most marginalized women and families.
As the women-centered project in "the incarceration capital of the world," WWAV is also one of the leading voices for criminal justice reform and decarceration across Louisiana and the Deep South. Even after having our headquarters fire-bombed in an aggravated arson attack in 2012, an attack targeting our social change work, we have continued to spread our wings and embrace an intersectional agenda for human rights, health promotion, harm reduction, reproductive justice, anti-violence, and anti-criminalization.
Much of our work is about creating a space for those most impacted by harmful policies to tell their stories and to speak their own truths. We work at the intersections, striving to understand the inner-workings of institutional racism — how white supremacy, classism, hetero-patriarchy, cis-sexism, homophobia, and transphobia link together to prevent marginalized women and their communities from accessing services. We work to bring poor women, Black women, Southern women, and queer women’s everyday struggles into national movements for reproductive justice, decarceration, drug policy reform, economic justice, and LGBTQ rights.
BUILDING OUR BLACK FEMINIST LIBRARY
In 2013, we developed our first Black Feminist Reading list for staff, volunteers, clients, and supporters to garner some understanding of the intersectional nature of our work. In 2016 we will host a physical lending library at our office in Midcity New Orleans, containing many of those books from our recommended reading list. This library will be a resource to our community for anyone wanting to delve more deeply into the issues we work on as a small, Deep South-based grassroots community organization.
The concepts, theoretical frameworks, and stories found in many of the books we use to guide our work offer an important lens in understanding how WWAV sees culturally-specific approaches to healing, violence against women, and reproductive rights for LGBTQ communities, Black women, low-income women, and women of color in a city like New Orleans.
Please join us in fundraising this holiday season to build our lending library! We are raising $1000 through December 31st, 2015 to purchase 50 books for our lending library.
You can see a list of some of the books we will be purchasing here on our Amazon Wish List!
Even $5 will go a long way toward making this vision a reality! Please donate what you can today!
For more about WWAV, visit us at http://wwav-no.org.
Organizer
Shaquita Borden
Organizer
New Orleans, LA
