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Join us for our first watch party by following this zoom link on October 15th! https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/97486111130

October is Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)/Domestic Violence (DV) awareness month. Some things to remember: Abuse is power and control. The person who is trying to take power will do everything to make you doubt yourself in the toxic environment. Trust your instincts! And if you need help, contact the Phoenix Center's 24/7 confidential helpline. ❤️

Check out our instagram for updates about a monthly watch party and discussion we are starting. Time and title of first production will be coming soon.

Shout out to Self-Care Is For Everyone for this reminder to treat ourselves kindly and their September campaign to support organizations promoting and .

What are some new ways you've found to show yourself love in these unique times?

Click the link below to read how one doctor is battling sexism in health care.

A paper was published late 2019 citing how female doctors shouldn't post pictures of themselves in bikinis on their personal social media pages, because they look unprofessional.

The story behind the widely shared photo of a bikini-clad doctor who helped a patient on the brink of death Dr. Candice Myhre shared a photo of herself saving someone's life while wearing a bikini to highlight "disgraceful" sexism in medicine.

Isolation from COVID has increase domestic violence calls. Please reach out if you or a loved one need extra help during this time. Phoenix Center 24/7 Hotline: 303-556-CALL (2255)

Victims of Domestic Violence at Greater Risk with Stay at Home Orders - Soroptimist International Gina Vucci, author, and women’s human rights activist, based in the U.S., takes a look at the escalating danger of domestic violence – a parallel pandemic taking place behind closed doors.Read More

A safety plan can help a survivor of interpersonal violence find where they would feel safest, people who can help, and what precautions to take.

Items to be included in a safety plan are different for everyone, depending on one's needs, ranging from emotional wellness to securing medication, or even insurance.

If you are looking to write up a safety plan, these two websites below might serve as great resources. And you do not have to do this alone! Please call us (303-556-2255) or schedule an appointment using the contact form.

https://www.dashdc.org/what-it-takes/
https://www.moneygeek.com/financial-planning/resources/financial-help-women-abusive-relationships/

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Safety from an Abusive Relationship

Start your week with the Pheonix Cast- a podcast designed to provide interpersonal violence prevention education, discuss pop culture, and unpack things that made us think “wow, there’s a lot to unpack there.”

Phoenix Cast — The Phoenix Center at Auraria l Anschutz The Phoenix Center at Auraria April 30, 2020 Episode 2: Misogyny and the Villainization of Carole Baskin The Phoenix Center at Auraria April 30, 2020 Podcast host and Prevention Education Extraordinaire Em Alves takes on Tiger King alongside PCA interns (Racheal, Naomi, and Jenae) in episode 2 of Th...

Today we celebrate the Pride month and the Black Pride Movement. The PCA strives to establish safe spaces for black LGBTQ+ victims and affirming them for who they are. Do not hesitate to reach out to us.

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24/7 Crisis Helpline: 303-556-2255

See: https://www.hrc.org/resources/black-and-african-american-lgbtq-youth-report

In his essay “Joy is Such a Human Madness”, the writer Ross Gay offers us an insight into revisiting sorrow with a sense of partnership and mutual support. Let us come together at the PCA in such spirit.

“It astonishes me sometimes—no, often—how every person I get to know—everyone, regardless of everything, by which I mean everything—lives with some profound personal sorrow. Brother addicted. Mother murdered. Dad died in surgery. Rejected by their family. Cancer came back. Evicted. Fetus not okay. Everyone, regardless, always, of everything. Not to mention the existential sorrow we all might be afflicted with, which is that we, and what we love, will soon be annihilated. Which sounds more dramatic than it might. Let me just say dead. Is this, sorrow, of which our impending being no more might be the foundation, the great wilderness?
Is this sorrow the true wild?
And if it is –and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that?
For joining too, is a kind of annihilation.
What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying.
I am saying: What if that is joy?”

Gay, R. (2019). The Book of Delights: Essays. United States: Algonquin Books.

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A community Poem for Ahmaud Arbery from NPR (https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862339935/running-for-your-life-a-community-poem-for-ahmaud-arbery)

Running For Your Life



What is the color of air?

Who owns the right to breathe?

Why are we so afraid of each other?

When will they come for the brown men I know and love?

What was his crime?



Is there justice for all In the land of the free?

Or only those who are

White like me?



What is the vaccine for this "pandemic"?

I wonder where my baby is?



Another

Black

Body

Shot.



White-hot hate

left its stain

on a blackened

Georgia road.



My country, 'tis of thee ... we must raise the skeletons

buried deep in our past,



1880

1890

1920

1990

2020

"Give it time," White Fragility says.

Nothing moves forward

until this hunting stops

a knife on our collective tongues



Please stop running

from the truth

and listen:



This death was everyone's fault.

This is on you, young America



We must accept the lingering shame and guilt,

the anger and mistrust inequality have instilled,

apologize for the damage commit to sow a future with humility.



While we await such a day,

Let us say your name:

Ahmaud Arbery,

Ahmaud Arbery,

Ahmaud Arbery.



I am sorry that we all know your name now;

That we will forget it far too soon.



I am sorry that the only song they know to sing for you is tragedy.

I am sorry that all I can do is write this poem



I am sorry that your life has become a metaphor:



a house being built, down the road,

He liked to mark its progress,

dream of building one himself,



Eyes shine through windows,

Like raccoons in the woods at night,

Their faces twisted, pink, and hot,



He knows these trees, and their strange fruit,



Of thee I sing.



after hatred's song is spilled

out into the streets

and across soft green lawns

it cannot be unsung



After bullet leaves chamber

it cannot be recalled



My heart rages for another mother's loss of her son

for the blindness



for the cover up

for the tears not enough to wet the graves



of so many lost for the sake of insanity:



a black babysitter caring for white children

a black professor opening his own front door

a young black woman sleeping in her own college lounge

a black teen knocking on a door to ask directions



his first words: Don't Be Afraid

a black boy jogging in the morning



There is an essential difference between running



and running for your life.



I remember my mother, the night

she got down on her hands and knees

on the frayed rug,



Tired of the facade of racial progress



Pain too hard to bear,

fists pumping out the beat,

"I can't take it anymore."



I don't fear the pick-up trucks

It's only the dogs sometimes, when there are two or more, and mean,

Who charge out onto the road, hair raised along their backs, barking and growling.

Coming up behind me.

Looking for a chance to bite.

My deepest fear is that I am black and that I will be murdered for it.



They are young men

simply going about their lives



Never, ever again, should a dream be deferred,

should a parent have to explain



Jim Crow still lives in the hearts and minds

of white men,

should a young man look over his shoulder

at a gun and run only to lose this race.



Never, ever AGAIN.

We do have a choice

and it is an easy choice.

We fight to rise above this sin



We fight to be a world of one



We fight for our humanity

because after leaves fall they cannot be reattached

to the tree



because broken hearts still beat



because Justice peeks her head

around the corner.

And hope the door doesn't slam.

'Running For Your Life': A Community Poem For Ahmaud Arbery For this latest community poem, NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander sifted through more than 1,000 submissions reacting to the killing of Ahmaud Abrery and created a poem that speaks with one voice.

We stand against any brutal acts towards black lives. The murders of George Floyd, by a white cop in Minnesota while he pleaded for air, Ahmaud Arbery, by strangers while jogging in Glynn County, Georgia; D’Andre Campbell, by cops when he called for help; and Breonna Taylor, by police in her home demonstrate the atrocities of white supremacy. Please join us as allies to uplift communities of color today.

For more actions: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

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