Monday, July 13, 2020: Violence against Black Women and Girls

Today at 1-2 pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we discuss violence against black women and girls and in addition violence against black women by police with Janelle White, Executive Director of San Francisco Women Against Rape and author and police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie.  And we will also talk to Regina Y. Evans who is creating art installations on Oakland’s International Blvd in response to the enormous amount of sex trafficking that proliferates there.

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J.Ritchie is a Black lesbian, immigrant/police misconduct attorney, and organizer whose writing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action initiative. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color  

Janelle White

Janelle White has been the executive director for San Francisco Women Against Rape for over a decade.  SFWAR  is a community-based, anti-sexual assault, social justice, women of color-led organization. Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, SFWAR has been serving the residents of San Francisco City & County for over 46 years. SFWAR provides support to sexual assault survivors, their families, and communities, and uses education and community mobilization as tools of rape prevention. And at SFWAR, they believe that ending all forms of oppression is integral to ending sexual assault.

Regina Y Evans

Regina Y Evans who is  a native of Oakland, California, is a Poet, Playwright, Actor, Entrepreneur, Modern Day Abolitionist and a Survivor Leader in the fight against sex trafficking. She is the Owner of Regina's Door, a vintage boutique located in Oakland, Ca. Regina's Door is an artistic safe haven and healing sanctuary for at-risk youth, homeless youth, young Oakland Creatives and survivors of human trafficking. As a Modern Day Abolitionist, Ms. Evans volunteers with Love Never Fails, a Bay Area Anti-Trafficking organization founded by Vanessa Marie Johnson Russell.  She is also a member of the S.H.A.D.E. Movement (Survivors Healing, Advising and Dedicated to Empowerment), a survivor run consulting/advocacy organization. For more info and to be involved contact Regina at Evans.Regina@gmail.com.


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