ABSTRACT
The ending Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) movement is a critical site for intersectional practice. Prominent intersectionality theorists, activists and artists and have focused on the experiences of Black women and violence. Intersectional practice invites a continuous building on the organising, familial, intellectual and community traditions of Black women, to strengthen a practice rooted in empathy, justice, dialogue and connection. Intersectionality requires accountability from individuals for the violence they perpetrate, simultaneously holding multiple truths of broader socio-cultural causes of VAWG. The urgency for the survival of the VAWG movement is the urgency of intersectionality. Intersectionality was born out of struggle, degradation, depletion and threatened annihilation in order to survive it. The UK Government is most responsive to arguments framed around cultural, faith and linguistically derived needs. Funding structures transfer organisational resource from feminist movement building towards service provision, shifting the focus of the work from collective structural change to individualised personal development.
