Addressing Systemic Racism in the Anti-Violence Movement

TAASA has long supported and encouraged the important strides towards racial justice and confronting anti-blackness in our movement. Our CEO, Rose Luna, released a letter on June 9, 2020, to organizational leaders urging programs to join us in this work. In service to our own learning and praxis as a movement, we offer these resources. We acknowledge how much we owe to Black activism in our anti-sexual violence movement, encourage authentic reflection on our organizational cultures and practices to cease perpetuating harms, and move towards embodying the liberation we hope for every person by eradicating anti-blackness and other root causes of sexual violence. 

Support Black-Serving Organizations in Texas

• Black Led/Black-Serving Organization Recommendations

Learning our history & where we are now 

• What is Systemic Racism? (video)
• History of the Anti-Sexual Violence movement (article)  
• At the Dark End of the Street (book) 
• Voices from Our Movement: Connecting the Dots: Racism, Oppression, and Work to End Domestic, Sexual, and Intimate Violence (video)  

Organizational assessments & reflections 

• Voices from Our Movement: Racism in the Anti-Violence Movement: Impacts on Survivors, Advocates, and Communities (video) 
• The “Problem” Woman of Colour in the Workplace (graphic)  
• Race to Lead (report) 
• Gaining Ground, Breaking Through Report (report) 

Interrupting racism & anti-blackness as an organization

• Ways Nonprofits Can Address Anti-Blackness Aside From Empty Statements (graphic)  
• Voices from Our Movement: Transformation is Now: Toward an Integrated, Intersectional Movement(video) 
• Woke at Work: White Women Doing White Supremacy in Non-profit Culture (article)
• Anti-Oppression Lessons Learned – NYC coalition (article)
• 3 Ways To Decolonize Your Nonprofit As Told By A Black Queer Feminist Organizer (article)