Policing Gender

Policing Gender

Aug 1, 2018

Policing Gender A Latina butch lesbian arrested at a demonstration in New York City by cells holding men, telling her “you think you’re a man, I’ll put you in there and we’ll see what happens to you.” “Gender policing, like race based policing, has always been part of...

Women of Color and Welfare

Aug 1, 2018

Women of Color and Welfare From: Working Hard, Staying Poor, published by the Women of Color Resource Center Welfare reform reduced welfare rolls by more than half, dropping the number of welfare recipients from 4.6 million to 2.4 million by 1999. However, while many...

Dangerous Intersections

Jul 31, 2018

Dangerous Intersections Women of color live in the dangerous intersections of sexism, racism and other oppressions. Within the mainstream anti-violence movement in the U.S., women of color who survive sexual or domestic abuse are often told that they must pit...
New Toolkit for Organizing Defense Campaigns

New Toolkit for Organizing Defense Campaigns

Jun 29, 2017 | General News | 0 comments

National grassroots organization, Survived and Punished, just released a new downloadable toolkit for organizing defense campaigns for survivors who are criminalized.  Excerpt: ​#SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis is a collection of tools,...
Language & Action back from hiatus!

Language & Action back from hiatus!

Jul 29, 2011 | Language & Action | 0 comments

Welcome back to Language & Action, a periodic collection of news about organizing, ideas, interventions, and opportunities, with an emphasis on the lives of women of color, trans people of color, and queer people of color.  We need your help to keep this feature...