Sex Work Decrim Fight
After more than 30 years of abolition feminist work alongside sex workers to reduce the harms of criminalization, Women With A Vision and our Sex Workers Advisory Committee (SWAC) mounted the first sex work decriminalization campaign in the Deep South.
Black Feminist Santa
Women With A Vision’s creation of Black Feminist Santa proves there are Black feminist possibilities everywhere, including and especially during what is often celebrated as a capitalist bacchanal—Christmas.
Porch Rap Session on Resilience, Post-Katrina, Post-Fire
It seemed like everyone wanted to talk about how we have “overcome,” but no one was ready to talk about the systems of oppression that made such “resilience” necessary. And so we decided to do what WWAV does: we came together to talk it out.
Arson Attack
On May 24, 2012 the forces of white supremacy, whorephobia, patriarchy, and queerphobia took the form of an arson attack on Women With A Vision’s offices.
Launch of New Orleans NO Justice Project
In order to create the NO Justice Project and mount a challenge of the CANS statute in the courts and legislature, we had to dream of a world otherwise and help our community members, the sex workers we were fighting with, believe that otherwise world was possible.
Hurricane Katrina
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina set off a chain of events that would wreak havoc throughout the Gulf South, and especially New Orleans. The forces of racial capitalism acted quickly.