Resources

How can we actually combat this? There are various ways to look beyond the institution and begin creating a world in which combats gender violence and other forms of violence. We realize there is no right answer, no answer at all, instead the best way to find out if something works is to try it as Angela Davis notes in her book, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empires, Prisons, and Torture.

Educator Tools 

• LBGTQI Terminology
• continuum of sexuality id
• lgbt_identity_development_theory
• trans_timeline

Community Organizations 

• Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence. Community Organizing…
• Asian Women’s Shelter. Queer Women’s Organizing.
• Generation Five. Transformative Justice
• Harm Free Zone.
• Incite! Women of Color Against Violence.
• Philly’s Pissed. Philly Stand Up website.
• Revolution Starts at Home Collective
• Homegirl Café, a division of Homeboy Industries, is a social enterprise assisting at-risk and formerly gang-involved young women and men to become contributing members of our community through training in restaurant service and culinary arts. Homegirl Café offers a one year training program within the food and service industry, empowering young people to redirect their lives and providing them with hope for their futures (www.homegirlcafe.org).
• Lideres Campesinas, represents a culmination of decades of work by farm working women (Campesinas). Farmworker women have been the leaders of many grassroots and mobilizing efforts to improve the lives of farmworker communities. Líderes Campesinas provides these long-time leaders and activists with the opportunity to coordinate their work statewide and has built collectives so that campesinas may become agents of change and be a more effective unified voice (www.liderescampesinas.org). 
• Mujeres de Maiz, a grassroots, multimedia, women’s art collective and networking/support circle of emerging Xicana and Women of Color cultural activists and artists in Los Angeles proactively creating work for, by and about women’s issues from local to global, personal to political, stressing the importance of gender, race, sexuality, and class (www.freewebs.com/mujeresdemaiz). 

Sources:
Worksheets provided by the LGBT Center at UC Riverside (lgbt.ucr.edu).