This summary highlights key findings and prevention implications from the CDC’s sexual violence survey data published in the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 2016/2017 Report on Sexual Violence. 

A recent Mother Jones article discussed what many have known to be true for a long time: that racism – Anti-Blackness, specifically – exists and persists in our movement to end sexual violence. The article, How the Mainstream Movement Against Gender-Based Violence Fails Black Workers and Survivors, written by Madison Pauly, captures the lived experiences...

This piece is written to capture the shifting norms, language, and anxieties surrounding relationship visibility and privacy boundaries. This autobiographical blog is designed to read as a casual social media post guided by memories of identity crises, bullying, homophobia, and doxxing. The piece also captures how power dynamics in the virtual space create very real...

While online spaces can play a role in healing, they can also be spaces of abuse and harassment.

Being trauma-informed means taking into consideration a person’s experience of trauma and their reactions to it.

A disability-informed future requires more awareness, education, and standardized implementation of accessible technologies.

Este documento fue co-escrito por el personal del Centro Nacional de Recursos sobre Violencia Sexual y el Centro Nacional de Recursos sobre Violencia Doméstica, con aportes significativos, orientación y liderazgo de mujeres negras y mujeres de color sobrevivientes e intercesores (advocates).  Este recurso hace conexiones entre la equidad en la salud y nuestro trabajo para...

Xenophobia and anti-Asian sentiment are not new; however, they have been on the rise since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to understand the connection between the Asian & Pacific Islander community and sexual violence in relation to COVID-19, we sat down with Baonam ‘Nam’ Giang of the National Organization of Asians and...

This guide draws from research, reporting, and the lived experiences of survivors to explore the connections between sexual violence and disasters, the inequities that shape them both, the lessons to be learned from the resilience of survivors and their communities, and opportunities for all of us to prevent sexual violence before, during, and after disasters....

You are not alone. Even in disasters, help is available.