DC Anti-Violence Project

10/26/2021

What It's Like To Be Inters*x

No more violence against inters*x people. Address the bullies, not the targets. Happy Inters*x Awareness Day. The period between October 26 and November 8 is noted as the 14 Days of Inters*x, culminating with Inters*x Solidarity Day.
https://interactadvocates.org/inters*x-awareness-day/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUDKEI4QKI&t=13s

Guess which one of us has testes?Inters*x Youth Advocacy Group: http://www.interactyouth.orgLegal Advocacy Group: http://www.aiclegal.orgSupport Group for in...

10/25/2021

Job Opening at The DC Center: Front Desk Support Team Member – The DC Center for the LGBT Community

Work with the DC Center for the LGBT Community!
https://thedccenter.org/job-opening-at-the-dc-center-front-desk-support-team-member/

Job Opening at The DC Center: Front Desk Support Team Member October 25, 2021October 19, 2021 by Corey H Full Job Description The DC Center for the LGBT Community has a mission of educating, empowering, celebrating, and connecting the le***an, gay, bis*xual, and transgender community of Washington,....

09/29/2021

USAODC Hate-Bias Task Force Meeting
The Role of Federal Law Enforcement in Bias-Related/Hate Crime Prosecution

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 6:00 p.m.
Event Number: 2761 433 3694; Event Password: 2Qp6SxAyW2x
To join this online event, go to https://usao.webex.com/usao/j.php?MTID=e727d8d10f869774bd5a4456f31139a5f

Tune in to learn more about current trends as well as federal and local law enforcement collaboration regarding hate/bias crime investigations

USAODC Hate-Bias Task Force Meeting
The Role of Federal Law Enforcement in Bias-Related/Hate Crime Prosecution

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 6:00 p.m.
Event Number: 2761 433 3694; Event Password: 2Qp6SxAyW2x
To join this online event, go to https://usao.webex.com/usao/j.php?MTID=e727d8d10f869774bd5a4456f31139a5f

Tune in to learn more about current trends as well as federal and local law enforcement collaboration regarding hate/bias crime investigations

09/29/2021

Police departments across U.S. are mandating LGBTQ training

A good article on LGBTQ+ community members' historic mistreatment by police, what many U.S. departments are doing to change that, and a nice feature of MPD LGBTSU Sergeant Nicole Brown talking about what is being done here in DC.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/police-departments-us-are-mandating-lgbtq-training-rcna2250
"Brown, who has worked as a D.C. police officer for 14 years, said she has seen first-hand the value of effective LGBTQ training for law enforcement. She regularly trains officers across the district in intensive courses ranging from how to approach investigating suspected anti-LGBTQ hate crimes to the importance of using the correct pronouns for transgender people.

But for Brown, there’s no substitute for on-the-beat training in the community, a community she herself is a part of. ...."

Following a string of violence against Black trans women, LGBTQ activists in New York took to the streets in summer 2020 to draw attention to the deadly issue.

09/22/2021

The Equality of Public Safety

The Mayors Office of LGBTQ Affairs hosting a panel discussing violence towards the community

09/09/2021

Intakes open now for October LGBTQ+ Working Through Trauma groups -- one all genders, one women-identified. Space is limited.
https://thedccenter.org/health/working-through-trauma-therapy-groups/

Intakes open now for October LGBTQ+ Working Through Trauma groups -- one all genders, one women-identified. Space is limited.
https://thedccenter.org/health/working-through-trauma-therapy-groups/

09/09/2021

“I didn’t like being a pushover”

Reserve your spot in the BIPOC Self-Defense Class on Sept 23:

Hi friend, Setting and maintaining boundaries can be powerful, even if it isn’t always easy to do. As we’re preparing to run our newest program, Emp...

09/02/2021

Spaces that center your needs matter, especially for BIPOC

Empowerment Self-Defense for BIPOC!

Dear friend, Finding spaces where you can show up fully yourself can be tough. Because we exist in a world with systemic harm, such as patriarchy an...

08/23/2021

Wow. What a throw back. A picture from some of the organizers of our inaugural Taking the Stage event ❤️

Taking the Stage, Taking a Stand: LGBTQ Voices Against Violence
www.dcavp.org

08/19/2021

You can defend yourself without martial arts

You Can Defend Yourself Without Martial Arts -- read this post from one of our partners with tips on verbal self defense, and learn about their newest program: Empowerment + Self-Defense for BIPOC People.

Dear friend, When most people hear “self-defense” they think of suiting up, heading to a stuffy gym and throwing down martial arts moves. Like Lucy L...

07/20/2021

Trans woman found murdered in P.G. County apartment

Vigil at 4pm today for Taya Ashton.
Family members were making arrangements for a vigil in Taya Ashton’s honor at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 21, at River Terrace Park, which is located in D.C. at Benning Road and Anacostia Ave., N.E. along the Anacostia River. The vigil will take place at or near the site of the park’s main gazebo.

Police seek help from community in identifying suspect

07/13/2021

Off to school or work? Get some safety skills!

Heading back to school and want to stop harassment, abuse and assault? This workshop is open to rising high-school juniors, seniors and college students who identify as women, transmen or non-binary. Offered by one of the founders of the DC Anti-Violence Project!

Dear friends, In the Fall, many students will be heading to school in person for the first time since COVID began. During the pandemic, social intera...

06/20/2021

What it's like to be a transgender dad

What it's like to be a transgender dad

LB Hannahs candidly shares the experience of parenting as a genderq***r individual -- and what it can teach us about authenticity and advocacy. "Authenticity doesn't mean 'comfortable.' It means managing and negotiating the discomfort of everyday life," Hannahs says.

06/10/2021

The First Program Ever to Serve Unhoused Trans Men of Color Just Launched in D.C.

The First Program Ever to Serve Unhoused Trans Men of Color Just Launched in D.C.

The program took inspiration from the adverse experiences of local trans men, including one staffer, in D.C.’s shelter system.

05/22/2021

Perspective | Before she died, a Black transgender woman wrote she was ‘tired of being not heard.’ Her loved ones hope people now listen.

Rest in Power Nona

Nona Moselle Conner had just started working on a storytelling project about the experiences of D.C. s*x workers during the pandemic.

05/19/2021

COMING SOON!

The DC Center invites LGBTQ+ Military Veterans to share their stories at a virtual open mic event on Saturday, May 29, 3:30-5:40pm. This event bridges National Military Appreciation Month (May) with Pride Month (June) in honor of LGBTQ+ service members’ courage and perseverance. While anyone can view the first hour of the event via the DC Anti-Violence Project page, the Zoom dialogue link will only be available to registered participants. ASL interpreters will be available if requested. Please let us know your interpreting preferences on the registration form, please register by MAY 26TH: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewDzDtWsL7DWlszQIgzAVEj4wzXww-reJBwAFHPMfRQGA1_Q/viewform

05/12/2021

Please come see this amazing survivors of violence event, offered by this fantastic organization -- the A/PI Domestic Violence Resource Project!

We invite you to ✨ Art As A Voice ✨ a virtual celebration on May 17th 2021 from 6-8pm EST!

✨ Register: https://tinyurl.com/dvrpAAAV

04/18/2021

Single Adult Housing :: So Others Might Eat

S.O.M.E. Single Adult Housing Lottery 4/21/21.

Our General Intake Housing Lottery will open Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 9AM. The Lottery will close at 5PM on April 21, 2021. The housing lottery system will be used to randomly select individuals meeting our eligibility requirements to move forward and apply for Single Adult Housing.

04/15/2021

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and it's a great opportunity to talk with your kids body autonomy. In some families, requiring a child to hug relatives is no big deal, but by requiring this type of a greeting, you have taken away your child's right to make decisions about their own body. As one of our DCAVP volunteers, @Eshe A. Folami shared, "Teaching a child that they can show affection on his/her terms is one of the tools parents can use to help protect their children from s*xual abuse."

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and it's a great opportunity to talk with your kids body autonomy. In some families, requiring a child to hug relatives is no big deal, but by requiring this type of a greeting, you have taken away your child's right to make decisions about their own body. As one of our DCAVP volunteers, @Eshe A. Folami shared, "Teaching a child that they can show affection on his/her terms is one of the tools parents can use to help protect their children from s*xual abuse."

04/09/2021

DC Anti-Violence Project updated their website address.

DC Anti-Violence Project updated their website address.

04/02/2021

TRANScending Jane and John Doe: The impact of Gender Identification in Forensic Cold Cases - Trans Doe Task Force

Today! Transcending Jane and John Doe: The Impact of Gender Identification in Forensic Cold Cases: register here to jump in.
http://transdoetaskforce.org/transcending-jane-and-john-doe-the-impact-of-gender-identification-in-forensic-cold-cases/?fbclid=IwAR105yGXZwRLOxQeI0o-T1ttqDvefvQmxyE7Svvm0XouqQa10BrTOoP32nI

Interested in how forensic anthropology and forensic genetic genealogy can help serve transgender and nonbinary decedents and law enforcement efforts with gender-informed strategies? Register for this free day-long webinar with topical sessions that is hosted by the ISU Gender Resource Center, Depar...

04/02/2021

Going on today! Jump in!

Reminder: Tomorrow is our big all-day online event, "TRANScending Jane and John Doe: the Impact of Gender Identification in Forensic Cold Cases" via Idaho State University! List of presentations and times can be seen in this flyer. You can follow any of the links below to register or get more info. All of the presentations will be recorded for later viewing and housed at this link:
http://transdoetaskforce.org/transcending-jane-and-john-doe-the-impact-of-gender-identification-in-forensic-cold-cases/

FB event link (overflow stream link will be posted in the event, so if you don't get into the ISU registration list before it closes, you can find an alternate link): https://www.facebook.com/events/437315357361720/

Direct registration link (please do register if possible, we want ISU to get a good count of attendees): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbVQ_auINTcLw8VbEygsyeOjYyN0cxrG4OBMSDMjxXajCjbA/viewform

Thank you to ISU for hosting this, and thank you to everyone who has registered and shared the event!

03/31/2021

Events

More bystander trainings to help you take a stand against anti-Asian hate.
https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/events

Join us at an upcoming event!

03/31/2021

Find a class

Bystander Trainings with Defend Yourself have a few spots left in this weekend's training and have more trainings coming up: https://defendyourself.org/find-a-class/#activebystander

Find a class Upcoming classes Active Bystander Skills for Stopping Anti-Asian Hate ONLINE About our classes Defend Yourself has classes for everyone, no matter what your age or ability. Whether you’re dealing with street harassment, going off to college, healing from abuse, or meeting any other ch...

03/25/2021

𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙞 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙮, 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙩

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray

Pauli Murray's (1910-1985) activism and legal scholarship directly contributed to the eventual end of the Jim Crow laws. Murray's book "States' Laws on Race and Color" and law school writings were critical materials for the team that successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, formally ending school segregation in America. Murray also played a role in securing equal protection for women under the law. A law review article "Jane Crow and the Law" Murray co-wrote directly inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successful efforts to bring down discrimination on the basis of s*x.

Murray faced opposition and suppression from society while trying to do her work and live her life. Unknown to most, Murray actually identified as a man who was attracted to women, while using female pronouns. Throughout her adulthood, there was virtually no space afforded to non-mainstream s*xual identities. Murray tried without success to obtain hormone therapy. She was unable to be open about her gender identity, faced rejection from and within academic institutions due to her s*x and race, and was penalized for peacefully protesting against segregation laws. Despite these obstacles, Murray was instrumental in advancing gender equality and civil rights, and helped set the stage for the sweeping movements of the 1960s.

Photo: AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin

𝘾𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙞 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙮, 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙩

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray

Pauli Murray's (1910-1985) activism and legal scholarship directly contributed to the eventual end of the Jim Crow laws. Murray's book "States' Laws on Race and Color" and law school writings were critical materials for the team that successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, formally ending school segregation in America. Murray also played a role in securing equal protection for women under the law. A law review article "Jane Crow and the Law" Murray co-wrote directly inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successful efforts to bring down discrimination on the basis of s*x.

Murray faced opposition and suppression from society while trying to do her work and live her life. Unknown to most, Murray actually identified as a man who was attracted to women, while using female pronouns. Throughout her adulthood, there was virtually no space afforded to non-mainstream s*xual identities. Murray tried without success to obtain hormone therapy. She was unable to be open about her gender identity, faced rejection from and within academic institutions due to her s*x and race, and was penalized for peacefully protesting against segregation laws. Despite these obstacles, Murray was instrumental in advancing gender equality and civil rights, and helped set the stage for the sweeping movements of the 1960s.

Photo: AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin

03/24/2021

Working Through Trauma Therapy Groups – The DC Center for the LGBT Community

Two new Working Through Trauma groups starting up this month. One for q***r women-identified; one for q***r open-gender identities. Contact us to sign up.
https://thedccenter.org/behavioral-health/working-through-trauma-therapy-groups/

Working Through Trauma Therapy Groups The DC Anti-Violence Project (DCAVP) LGBTQ+ Working Through Trauma groups invite LGBTQ+ survivors of violence, abuse and trauma to focus on processing trauma responses and symptoms as a group through a variety of therapeutic techniques, learning to manage trigge...

03/24/2021

AAPF Mourns the Loss of Life in Georgia

Excellent post by the African American Policy Reform about the intersectionality of racism and misogyny involved in the Atlanta killings. "Our collective capacity to see racism through a gendered lens has always been limited...."

The African American Policy Forum is horrified and heartbroken by this week’s killings at three Atlanta-area spas. The attacks laid bare the vulnerability of working Asian women to misogynist, anti-Asian violence, and made clear a broader societal failure to address the lethality of intersectional...

03/15/2021

Coming SOON! LGBTQ+ Veterans Open Mic!

03/01/2021

As February becomes March, Black History Month becomes Women's History Month, and #BlackLivesMatter has a voice in both.

In 2013, Alicia Garza (1981-), Opal Tometi (1984-), and Patrisse Cullors (1984-) founded "a Black-centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter" in the United States. In the 8 years since, it has grown across the world to become one of the most recognizable contemporary anti-violence movements. The movement's global chapters organize to intervene in and halt anti-Black racism and violence, and to reform the systems that perpetuate it. Launched by young adults, #BlackLivesMatter demonstrated to a new generation that it was both possible and crucial to demand action from those in power to address systemic racial inequity. Of note to the LGBTQIA+ community, #BlackLivesMatter has stated that it prioritizes supporting and recognizing contributions and leadership from women, q***r people, and trans people toward stopping anti-Black violence. Read more about #BlackLivesMatter online at https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/.

Image sources, from top to bottom: Amy Elkins for The New Yorker, Hayneface, and Black Lives Matter.

As February becomes March, Black History Month becomes Women's History Month, and #BlackLivesMatter has a voice in both.

In 2013, Alicia Garza (1981-), Opal Tometi (1984-), and Patrisse Cullors (1984-) founded "a Black-centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter" in the United States. In the 8 years since, it has grown across the world to become one of the most recognizable contemporary anti-violence movements. The movement's global chapters organize to intervene in and halt anti-Black racism and violence, and to reform the systems that perpetuate it. Launched by young adults, #BlackLivesMatter demonstrated to a new generation that it was both possible and crucial to demand action from those in power to address systemic racial inequity. Of note to the LGBTQIA+ community, #BlackLivesMatter has stated that it prioritizes supporting and recognizing contributions and leadership from women, q***r people, and trans people toward stopping anti-Black violence. Read more about #BlackLivesMatter online at https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/.

Image sources, from top to bottom: Amy Elkins for The New Yorker, Hayneface, and Black Lives Matter.