VAWnet News Blog

This issue of the PreventIPV newsletter features resources and upcoming events that highlight the importance of centering the lived experiences, voices, and leadership of Black women in our work. Doing this will create healthy environments for people to live and be themselves while learning, working, loving, worshiping, playing, and gracefully aging.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) has announced their new slate of officers and welcomes new members to the Board of Directors.

Writing in plain language is a tool to advance racial equity. It is an important step in dismantling white supremacy practices and anti-Blackness. When we move away from plain language and towards complicated wording and discipline-specific language, we prioritize people who already work in our field, and for whom English as a first language. When we use plain language, we center language access and justice.

Transgender men say they are often harassed, denied medically necessary care and “forced to be someone” they're not while incarcerated.

Even before students returned to campus, advocacy groups were expressing heightened concern about the “red zone,” the period from August to late November when roughly 50 percent of sexual assaults occur at colleges during any given year.

On November 30, look for our #GivingTuesday campaign in your inbox or on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn feeds. If you would like to get a head start, you are welcome to donate today.