It Starts With Us—Sharing Our Stories, Building Our Power
Our Wednesdays are not normal. And it’s not okay.
For too long, anti-violence workers have been forced into crisis mode, doing the impossible every day—navigating systems that, while perhaps well-intentioned, were not built to truly protect or heal survivors.We are frontline social workers, advocates, community organizers, educators, changemakers, and survivors ourselves.
We hold the stories of those who’ve been hurt and retraumatized by the very systems meant to support them. The daily triage, the constant crisis management, the systemic betrayal—it’s become so normalized that we hardly have time to stop and question it. But we must. Because working in permanent emergency mode is not normal.
“We invite you to be a part of building this community of solidarity as we dismantle our current systems—rooted in white supremacist cis-hetero-patriarchy. We welcome your support in building alternatives created by and for survivors of gender-based violence. As current systems are maintained by our communities’ participation in and dependence on the status quo, it will take all of us to make the radical changes ahead.”
—Anti-Violence Solidarity Circle Founders Statement
We see it. We live it. And many of us have survived it ourselves. We deserve better. The communities we serve deserve better.
We deserve systems built for healing, accountability, and transformative justice. Systems where survivors actively define what justice looks like for them—where our beloved communities work alongside us to end violence.We are tired of invisibility. Tired of struggling in isolation.
It’s time to build our power. To share our stories and our truth. To stand up and say: This is not normal, and we will not accept it. Join us. Together, we can co-create something better.

What Our Members Are Saying
we can change our wednesdays. together.
