No Shame! No Fear!
Our South Queens gender justice team, working in the Richmond Hill/Ozone Park area, put together a public workshop so that our communities can start thinking about how we end domestic and gender-based violence in our neighborhoods.
They started doing street outreach in the beginning of the year and identified domestic and gender-based violence as an issue the community was facing and interested in working around.
Together, our members developed a comprehensive domestic violence info card and put together a workshop aiming to start build community infrastructure to end gender-based violence.
Yesterday, over 30 people came together, identified different forms of abuse including things we find “normal”, studied examples of how the Gulabi GANG, The Harm Free Zone Movement, and Ni una menos have confronted gender-based violence in their own communities, and discussed how we, as a community, could also deal with particular scenarios of domestic violence.
Our members are beginning a critical process of bringing what we usually consider as “private” or what’s to be kept in the home to the public and what should be confronted together as a community.
