**TRIGGER WARNING**

Really looking forward to the release of this documentary. As a survivor I always experience a great deal of healing when someone breaks the silence. Here’s to ending sexual assault and all the shame that surrounds it.
“Secret Survivors is an interview-based theater project by NYC-based theater company, Ping Chong & [...]

This week Racialicious posted a piece about a black trans woman who has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder after she and her friends were violently attacked by a group of white people who were yelling racist and transphobic epithets. A woman smashed a glass into CeCe’s face and, according to Racialicious,
A fight [...]

The folks at Dream Activist have launched a campaign to stop the deportation of Yanelli Hernandez. Yanelli came to the United States as a 13-year-old and is set to be deported TOMORROW, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31!  Yanelli almost took her life while being held in detention by ICE and what she needs is treatment.  According to [...]

**Trigger warning**
Reposting this web-gem from here, because we love the way it puts the focus and responsibility for sexual assault back onto perpetrators!  Female-identified people get a lot of messages about what we need to do to keep ourselves safe and minimize our risk of sexual assault (carry our keys in our hands to use [...]

Just as the title says! Our good buds at Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf are extending their submission deadline until next month!
“We are extending the deadline for Issue #6 to FEBRUARY 1st, 2012!
what better new year’s resolution than to submit that comic you’ve been dreamily drawing to Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf?
Submit a comic to Issue #6 [...]

Searching for a way to help out local feminist, anti-violence work in Brooklyn on your Wednesday night? Look no further! For all of our New York based readers, we hope you’ll be able to make it to the 8th Sound Wave Benefit show organized by Permanent Wave, a NYC based grassroots feminist collective. Tonight’s show, happening at Death By [...]

Rich Black. Oakland, CA
Check out some of the posters from the 99%! Occuprint is a poster series with works from around the world, curated by Molly Fair, Jesse Goldstein, Josh MacPhee and John Boy. They provide free online & print posters and are continuing to expand.  Click here to see their website, and if you [...]

This talk from Chimamanda Adichie reminds me of what we are working for:

- ACP
P.S. The amount of people that think that Africa is a country is alarming and disturbing.

The Doula Project is now accepting applications for a spring internship. By joining the Doula Project, you will have the opportunity to work with people across the spectrum of pregnancy in NYC. Please see below for more details and the full application.
Organization’s Mission:
The Doula Project is an NYC-based organization that provides free compassionate care and [...]