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This TAQ explores the intersecting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic violence on trans and non-binary individuals and communities, offering strategies to promote inclusive, culturally responsive, and affirming services.

Domestic violence impacts survivors in many ways, including their economic stability. This TAQ focuses on how flexible financial assistance can be distributed to survivors of intimate partner violence.

Responsive to the moment, mobile advocacy returns to the roots of DV advocacy, and embraces historically Black-led models of community care, through its flexible approach of meeting survivors where they are.

Why is it important for us – advocates, healers, and social change makers – to practice radical self-love? Because radical self-love is a pathway toward individual and collective transformation.

As a field, we understand that power dynamics are multi-dimensional and seep into almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. This TAQ, authored by staff at Futures Without Violence, offers examples of ways gender-based violence organizations have put their values into action.

“Black advocates are being pushed out of the movement when it needs us most.” In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), Ashley Carter, Founder & CEO of ASX Consulting discusses some of the reasons why Black advocates are leaving the gender-based violence movement.