At our most vulnerable and dependent on another, there are some things we may universally expect in the way of support: to not be embarrassed or exposed either for needing… [ Read More ]
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UMOJA’s Open Letter To The Community
Dear Community, It is with heavy hearts that we pen this open letter to our community. We particularly recognize the advocates and survivors, who we work on behalf of… [ Read More ]
Governor Whitmer Signs Bill for Supplemental Funding to Support COVID-19 Response
Today, Governor Whitmer signed Senate Bill 690, which appropriates nearly $880 million in federal funding to support various COVID-19 response actions across the state. The supplemental budget includes… [ Read More ]
SCOTUS: Employers Shouldn’t Fire People for Being Gay or Transgender
As pride month, 2020 comes to a close, we at the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence would like to applaud the decision made by the U.S. Supreme… [ Read More ]
MCEDSV Statement On Police Reform
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work… [ Read More ]
Am I? I am.
*Blog Disclaimer* MCEDSV values the voices of all survivors. We acknowledge the power and change that can be created with perspective sharing based on one’s personal identities and experiences. It… [ Read More ]
Allies Please Keep Listening, Reading, and Posting… Also Continue Growing into Our Discomfort
Allies make mistakes almost perpetually because if we are doing this work the way we should be, we are constantly reflecting, growing, learning, unlearning, acting, and being accountable. We are… [ Read More ]
Solidarity Statement from the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence
The Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCEDSV) is committed to ending violence in our communities and we demand justice in response to the deaths of Breonna Taylor,… [ Read More ]
Crip Camp
“For 25 days in April 1977, a group of roughly 150 disability rights activists took over the fourth floor of a federal building in San Francisco. They would not leave,… [ Read More ]
Sex Education Matters Series (Part One)
This is part of a series of blogs for Sex Ed For All Month and International Masturbation Month. Amanda is a Sexual Health Educator, Sex Therapist, and Violence Preventionist… [ Read More ]