Housed at We are Purposeful, the initiative draws on in-depth research on the intersections of gender and violence for marginalized women worldwide to inform activist organizing, policy debates, and art.
We know that gender determines vulnerability to violence.
We know that violence is a political act.
We seek to understand the political impact of this violence.
We are concerned with how the wound that forms around moment(s) of multiple forms of violence shapes political identities. We work to mobilize from this, deeper, place of power. One that is both intimate and universal. As we resist, we work to dismantle the dominant narratives violence breeds.
As a collective, our work is to educate to liberate: to incite, mobilize, dismantle, and radically re-imagine in ways that honor legacies of struggle and build mass movements to resist violence.
A feature on PSVI’s work training scholar-activists was done in the Chronicle of Higher Education, read it here: CHRONICLE ARTICLE.
