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April 13, 2024

INCITE! Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans people of Color Against Violence, formerly known as INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, is a United States-based national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities. INCITE! is organized by a national collective of women of color and has active chapters and affiliates in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Denver, Albuquerque, Austin, New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Ann Arbor, Binghamton, Chicago, and a chapter in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. INCITE! was founded in 2000.

History edit

INCITE! began in 2000 after organizing the conference, "The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color", held at the University of California-Santa Cruz on April 28–29, 2000. Prior to The Color of Violence, many women of color felt their needs had been ignored in the violence against women movement. Much of the leadership in the movement that was started by Black lesbians, at that time, was white women who typically excluded an intersectional approach. Women of color had a more radical approach to the violence against women movement. That approach was often ignored. Many of the women of color grew frustrated and left the movement entirely. The Color of Violence Convention gave women of color a place where their more radical approach could be central.[1] Issues addressed at this conference included immigrant rights and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, militarism, attacks on the reproductive rights of women of color, medical experimentation on communities of color, homophobia and heterosexism, economic neo-colonialism, and the politicization of the movement against domestic and sexual violence. Conference organizers initially anticipated a small gathering of one to two hundred people. Still, over one thousand people attended and over two thousand people had to be turned away because of space limitations.[2]" Andrea Smith, a white woman and INCITE! co-founder,[3] wrote that "the overwhelming response to this initial effort suggests that women of color and their allies are hungry for a new approach toward ending violence."[2] As a result of this enthusiastic response, conference organizers and others founded INCITE! to continue to implement the ideas of the conference.

Analysis edit

INCITE! identifies "violence against women of color" as a combination of "violence directed at communities", such as police violence, war, and colonialism, and "violence within communities", such as rape and domestic violence.[4] INCITE! critiques the battered women's movement and anti-rape movement as becoming increasingly professionalized, keeping it from taking more political stances on institutional oppression and violence, and increasingly collaborative with the criminal justice system, which they identify as being "brutally oppressive towards communities of color".[4] INCITE! also critiques racial justice organizing that focuses on racism only as it affects men of color. As an alternative strategy, INCITE! develops strategies to address both personal and state violence, acknowledging the ways that oppressions intersect in the lives of women of color. At INCITE!'s first conference, "The Color of Violence", in 2000, speaker Angela Davis described this intersectional approach to violence against women of color in the following way:

We need an analysis that furthers neither the conservative project of sequestering millions of men of color in accordance with the contemporary dictates of globalized capital and its prison industrial complex, nor the equally conservative project of abandoning poor women of color to a continuum of violence that extends from the sweatshops through the prisons, to shelters, and into bedrooms at home. How do we develop analyses and organizing strategies against violence against women that acknowledge the race of gender and the gender of race?[5]

Projects edit

INCITE! works on several local and national campaigns including organizing against police violence against women and trans people of color, for community-based strategies to hold people engaged in abusive behavior such as domestic and sexual violence accountable, against sterilization abuse and the Hyde Amendment, and against the War on Iraq and U.S. militarism. INCITE! helped to establish the Boarding School Healing Project, a project that organizes Native Americans to hold the U.S. government accountable for forcing over 100,000 Native children to go to Christian boarding schools where they were often raped and abused.[6] In 2004, INCITE! launched SisterFire, a national tour of women of color artists using creative cultural methods to engage other women of color on a number of issues, including war, reproductive violence, and immigrant rights.[7]

INCITE!'s grassroots chapters also organize projects to address multiple kinds of violence against women of color. After Hurricane Katrina, INCITE!'s New Orleans chapter began a women's health clinic to support low-income and uninsured women of color to meet their healthcare needs and to organize for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice.[citation needed] INCITE!'s Philadelphia chapter has worked on issues of housing and gentrification. INCITE!'s affiliate, Sista II Sista, organized campaigns against sexual harassment of young women of color by police officers in Brooklyn, NY. INCITE!'s Denver chapter spotlighted an intersectional analysis of racism and violence against women as a critique to other anti-violence organizations' responses to the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case.[8] INCITE!'s chapter in Washington, D.C. organized direct actions against street harassment.[9]

INCITE! also organized two other national Color of Violence conferences: "The Color of Violence II: Building A Movement" in Chicago, Illinois, in March 2002, and "The Color of Violence III: Stopping The War On Women of Color" in New Orleans, Louisiana, in March 2005. INCITE! also helped to organize a national conference in April 2004 entitled, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex" at the University of California-Santa Barbara. This latter conference brought together activists to investigate the impact of the non-profit system on grassroots movement building.

In 2006, INCITE! published an anthology of writings that reflect their politics entitled, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, published by South End Press. In 2007, they also published an anthology entitled, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex, published by South End Press. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded was awarded the Gustavus Myers 2007 Outstanding Book Award.[10]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Duke University Press. 2016. pp. 2–3.
  2. ^ a b Smith, Andrea (2001). "The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color," Meridians: Feminism, Race, & Transnationalism. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
  3. ^ Viren, Sarah (25 May 2021). "The Native Scholar Who Wasn't". The New York Times.
  4. ^ a b INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2006). Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. 2007-02-19 at the Wayback Machine Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press.
  5. ^ Smith, Andrea (2000). "Colors of Violence," ColorLines Magazine.
  6. ^ McKelvey, Tara (October 4, 2004). "How the U.S. government is violating Native Americans’ human rights," American Prospect Online.
  7. ^ (June 18, 2004). "Sisterfire NYC - Free Concert To End Violence," Vibe Magazine: Online Exclusives.
  8. ^ Huntley, Sarah (February 7, 2005). "Race Divides Advocates," Rocky Mountain News.
  9. ^ (May 8, 2006)."Choose Respect! Pictures from the Community Education Speak Out Against Street Harassment of Women and Girls 2008-09-27 at the Wayback Machine," DC Indymedia.
  10. ^ . Gustavus Myers Center. Archived from the original on 2008-02-24. Retrieved 2007-12-18.

Further reading edit

  • INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2007). The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-766-8
  • Bierria, Alisa; Liebenthal, Mayaba; and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2007). "To Render Ourselves Visible: Women of Color Organizing and Hurricane Katrina", What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and The State of The Nation, edited by the South End Press Collective. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-767-5
  • Flaherty, Jordan (January 23, 2007). ", ZNet.
  • del Moral, Andrea (April 4, 2005). "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded", LiP Magazine.
  • Ritchie, Andrea; Ko Robinson, Tammy (2005). "", Left Turn.
  • Smith, Andrea. (2005). Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-743-9

External links edit

  • INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

April 13, 2024
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INCITE Women Gender Non Conforming and Trans people of Color Against Violence formerly known as INCITE Women of Color Against Violence is a United States based national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities INCITE is organized by a national collective of women of color and has active chapters and affiliates in San Francisco Washington D C Denver Albuquerque Austin New Orleans Boston Philadelphia New York City Ann Arbor Binghamton Chicago and a chapter in Toronto Ontario Canada INCITE was founded in 2000 Contents 1 History 2 Analysis 3 Projects 4 Notes 5 Further reading 6 External linksHistory editINCITE began in 2000 after organizing the conference The Color of Violence Violence Against Women of Color held at the University of California Santa Cruz on April 28 29 2000 Prior to The Color of Violence many women of color felt their needs had been ignored in the violence against women movement Much of the leadership in the movement that was started by Black lesbians at that time was white women who typically excluded an intersectional approach Women of color had a more radical approach to the violence against women movement That approach was often ignored Many of the women of color grew frustrated and left the movement entirely The Color of Violence Convention gave women of color a place where their more radical approach could be central 1 Issues addressed at this conference included immigrant rights and Indian treaty rights the proliferation of prisons militarism attacks on the reproductive rights of women of color medical experimentation on communities of color homophobia and heterosexism economic neo colonialism and the politicization of the movement against domestic and sexual violence Conference organizers initially anticipated a small gathering of one to two hundred people Still over one thousand people attended and over two thousand people had to be turned away because of space limitations 2 Andrea Smith a white woman and INCITE co founder 3 wrote that the overwhelming response to this initial effort suggests that women of color and their allies are hungry for a new approach toward ending violence 2 As a result of this enthusiastic response conference organizers and others founded INCITE to continue to implement the ideas of the conference Analysis editINCITE identifies violence against women of color as a combination of violence directed at communities such as police violence war and colonialism and violence within communities such as rape and domestic violence 4 INCITE critiques the battered women s movement and anti rape movement as becoming increasingly professionalized keeping it from taking more political stances on institutional oppression and violence and increasingly collaborative with the criminal justice system which they identify as being brutally oppressive towards communities of color 4 INCITE also critiques racial justice organizing that focuses on racism only as it affects men of color As an alternative strategy INCITE develops strategies to address both personal and state violence acknowledging the ways that oppressions intersect in the lives of women of color At INCITE s first conference The Color of Violence in 2000 speaker Angela Davis described this intersectional approach to violence against women of color in the following way We need an analysis that furthers neither the conservative project of sequestering millions of men of color in accordance with the contemporary dictates of globalized capital and its prison industrial complex nor the equally conservative project of abandoning poor women of color to a continuum of violence that extends from the sweatshops through the prisons to shelters and into bedrooms at home How do we develop analyses and organizing strategies against violence against women that acknowledge the race of gender and the gender of race 5 Projects editINCITE works on several local and national campaigns including organizing against police violence against women and trans people of color for community based strategies to hold people engaged in abusive behavior such as domestic and sexual violence accountable against sterilization abuse and the Hyde Amendment and against the War on Iraq and U S militarism INCITE helped to establish the Boarding School Healing Project a project that organizes Native Americans to hold the U S government accountable for forcing over 100 000 Native children to go to Christian boarding schools where they were often raped and abused 6 In 2004 INCITE launched SisterFire a national tour of women of color artists using creative cultural methods to engage other women of color on a number of issues including war reproductive violence and immigrant rights 7 INCITE s grassroots chapters also organize projects to address multiple kinds of violence against women of color After Hurricane Katrina INCITE s New Orleans chapter began a women s health clinic to support low income and uninsured women of color to meet their healthcare needs and to organize for racial gender economic and environmental justice citation needed INCITE s Philadelphia chapter has worked on issues of housing and gentrification INCITE s affiliate Sista II Sista organized campaigns against sexual harassment of young women of color by police officers in Brooklyn NY INCITE s Denver chapter spotlighted an intersectional analysis of racism and violence against women as a critique to other anti violence organizations responses to the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case 8 INCITE s chapter in Washington D C organized direct actions against street harassment 9 INCITE also organized two other national Color of Violence conferences The Color of Violence II Building A Movement in Chicago Illinois in March 2002 and The Color of Violence III Stopping The War On Women of Color in New Orleans Louisiana in March 2005 INCITE also helped to organize a national conference in April 2004 entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Beyond The Non Profit Industrial Complex at the University of California Santa Barbara This latter conference brought together activists to investigate the impact of the non profit system on grassroots movement building In 2006 INCITE published an anthology of writings that reflect their politics entitled Color of Violence The INCITE Anthology published by South End Press In 2007 they also published an anthology entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Beyond The Non Profit Industrial Complex published by South End Press The Revolution Will Not Be Funded was awarded the Gustavus Myers 2007 Outstanding Book Award 10 Notes edit Color of Violence The INCITE Anthology Duke University Press 2016 pp 2 3 a b Smith Andrea 2001 The Color of Violence Violence Against Women of Color Meridians Feminism Race amp Transnationalism Middletown CT Wesleyan University Press Viren Sarah 25 May 2021 The Native Scholar Who Wasn t The New York Times a b INCITE Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Color of Violence The INCITE Anthology Archived 2007 02 19 at the Wayback Machine Cambridge Massachusetts South End Press Smith Andrea 2000 Colors of Violence ColorLines Magazine McKelvey Tara October 4 2004 How the U S government is violating Native Americans human rights American Prospect Online June 18 2004 Sisterfire NYC Free Concert To End Violence Vibe Magazine Online Exclusives Huntley Sarah February 7 2005 Race Divides Advocates Rocky Mountain News May 8 2006 Choose Respect Pictures from the Community Education Speak Out Against Street Harassment of Women and Girls Archived 2008 09 27 at the Wayback Machine DC Indymedia Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights 2007 Award Winners Gustavus Myers Center Archived from the original on 2008 02 24 Retrieved 2007 12 18 Further reading editINCITE Women of Color Against Violence 2007 The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Beyond The Non Profit Industrial Complex Cambridge Massachusetts South End Press ISBN 978 0 89608 766 8 Bierria Alisa Liebenthal Mayaba and INCITE Women of Color Against Violence 2007 To Render Ourselves Visible Women of Color Organizing and Hurricane Katrina What Lies Beneath Katrina Race and The State of The Nation edited by the South End Press Collective Cambridge Massachusetts South End Press ISBN 978 0 89608 767 5 Flaherty Jordan January 23 2007 The Second Looting of New Orleans ZNet del Moral Andrea April 4 2005 The Revolution Will Not Be Funded LiP Magazine Ritchie Andrea Ko Robinson Tammy 2005 Organizing To Stop The War Against Women Of Color Left Turn Smith Andrea 2005 Conquest Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide Cambridge Massachusetts South End Press ISBN 978 0 89608 743 9External links editINCITE Women of Color Against Violence Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Incite amp oldid 1204893724, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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