National Domestic Violence Awareness Project

Welcome! This blog promotes ways to raise awareness of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating abuse and stalking, including supportive interventions for LGBTQ-identified people, teens, and older adults. We also post about feminist thought, self care, and other intersecting issues...

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Intersex People Can No Longer Be Sidelined in the LGBTQ+ Movement

Intersex people make up nearly 2 percent of the population — why are their lives so often invisible?

📢 On #IntersexDayofSolidarity, our Director of Advocacy and Government Affairs Sam Ames writes with Kimberly Zieselman, “As attacks continue to be lodged against people based on antiquated and harmful beliefs about sex and gender, it is more pressing than ever to center the issue of intersex children’s bodily autonomy.” Read their piece for The Advocate 📢

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For #DVAM2021 we turned up the heat on our call to action from last year, No Survivor Justice without Racial Justice. We MUST center, celebrate, and follow the leadership of communities of color - survivors, leaders, advocates, and frontline workers. Read more on DVawareness.org. 💜 And now as we move into November, we celebrate and honor National Native American Heritage Month. Learn more from our partners at National Indigenous Women's Resource Center & Alaska Native Women's Resource Center.

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#PreventIPV is a project of NRCDV and our #DVAM2021 tool this week is from Race Equity! 💜 #1thing you can do to combat racism today is to check out these anti-racist resources.

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We’re wrapping up the #DVAM Week of Action with #SharingSunday! #Every1KnowsSome1, and survivors deserve to feel safe and believed if they choose to share their stories, and it’s up to all of us to make sure that happens. #1Thing you can do is check out The National Network to End Domestic Violence’s 10 Tips: nnedv.org/content/10-tips-informed-conversation/

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The #DVAM Week of Action continues with #SpeakUpSaturday! Policy and advocacy are key to our work to end domestic violence, and we need your voice to make a difference. #1Thing you can do is sign up to receive our emails today: NRCDV.org/newsletter

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Today is #PurpleThursday! 💜💟 Today #TeamNRCDV wears purple to honor survivors. Our stories. Our healing. Our resilience. Our good days & bad. Our fight for racial equity. What's the #1Thing / #UnaCosa you're doing to honor survivors during #DVAM2021?

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"We're on the frontline so we can keep our community members safe," shares Zakiya Bell-Rogers, an advocate at Helpmate. #1Thing we can't forget this #DVAM2021: Domestic violence advocates are essential workers. We appreciate you. 💜

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“Alliance for Girls' latest report provides a roadmap on the investments and strategies needed to achieve greater equity, especially for girls and gender expansive youth of color." Check out this week's #PreventIPV #DVAM2021 tool! 💜

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This Trans-Affirming Thrift Store Is Creating Community One Binder at a Time

Margie’s Closet is so much more than somewhere to buy and donate clothes. It’s a place for finding family.

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On the last day of #HispanicHeritageMonth / #LatinxHeritageMonth, #1Thing we want to center is this #PreventIPV tool! This toolkit is a comprehensive resource for working with Latino men (including audio-visual materials in Spanish and English!).

[realtransfacts]

Fact #986: Your dysphoria will not be the end of you.

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Tomorrow is the last day of #HispanicHeritageMonth / #LatinxHeritageMonth. The Amar con Sentido campaign focuses on dating violence prevention. Through the use of imagery the campaign sends a powerful message about what a healthy relationship is.

La campaña de prevención Amar con Sentido se centra en la prevención de la violencia entre parejas jovenes. A través del uso de imágenes, la campaña envía un poderoso mensaje sobre la verdadera definición de lo que es una relación sana.

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(Image description: black all caps text on a white background which says “Coming out is a personal choice, not an obligation.”)

If you can’t or don’t want to come out yet, it’s okay. You’re fine. ♡

You’re not “letting down the cause” or being dishonest– you’re keeping yourself safe, and that’s what matters.

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Surge in life-or-death calls takes toll on domestic violence crisis line workers

"I have to remind myself that I am just a person. I am not a miracle worker. I am doing what I can," one worker said.

"I have to remind myself that I am just a person. I am not a miracle worker. I am doing what I can," one worker said. #Care4Advocates is #1Thing that needs to be centered this #DVAM2021. More Jean Lee, NBC News on the #VAWnet news blog here. 📰

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"We must center these stories in our work. We must acknowledge the additional and overwhelming burden on women of color — especially Black women — who fight for not only their health, but their very right to it." This #DVAM2021, #1Thing you can do to center health equity is check out this week's #PreventIPV tool of the week here.

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In our work to prevent gender-based violence, we share a vision for a world where individuals, families, and communities thrive. To realize this vision, we must create social and physical environments that provide every person the opportunities for good health and positive well-being. This means that health equity is our work. #1Thing you can do to promote health equity this #DVAM2021 is check out this paper! (Thanks for the collab, NSVRC 💜)

[itgetsbetter]

It's #HispanicHeritageMonth and today we're remembering Mexican-American human rights lawyer and AIDS activist Dennis deLeon!

Dennis served as New York City's Human Rights Commissioner, and in 1993, he became one of the first NYC officials to publicly disclose his HIV status when he wrote on op-ed called "My Hopes, My Fears, My Disease" published in The New York Times.

In 1994, he was chosen as president of the Latino Commission on AIDS, where he helped the organization parter with 380 other orgs around the U.S., create Spanish-language resource guides on AIDS information, and work with Spanish-speaking churches to build a network of AIDS prevention programs. Thank you for speaking out bravely and giving back to the community, Dennis!