This moment is defined by desires for dominance: over bodies, resources, political life. An insatiable desire for racialized sexual supremacy embedded in emboldened states. The Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative fights, on multiple fronts, to tackle the root causes of gender-based violence by cultivating the political voice of those most deeply impacted by it.
As a collective, our work is to follow what Bell Hooks asked of us, to educate to liberate: to incite, mobilize, and dismantle to radically re-imagine in ways that honor legacies of struggle and build mass movements to resist violence.
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