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Violence Against RURAL Women Resources

The Rural Womyn Zone is an online community by and for rural women. It was started in 1995 by women who were advocates for rural battered women and rape victims. 

The Rural Womyn Zone produced the first online resource directory of Spanish language resources for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. We worked in coordination with activists in California and Guatemala. The Zone published the first online newsletter for Women's Justice Center/ Centro de Justicia Para Mujeres, which later developed its own bi-lingual web site (Spanish and English.)

The Rural Womyn Zone developed the concept of combining World Rural Women's Day with Domestic Violence Awareness Month each October, and promotes activities in rural communities that draw attention to the intersection of the those issues through Take Action in October.  Some of the annual events resulting from this promotion include World Rural Women's Day in South Dakota and Nova Scotia.  More.

Ride in the car across South Dakota.  Ride in the car with a rural advocate on her way to work in South Dakota.

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What we talk about behind the scenes in the Rural Womyn Zone. Politics, gender, health, jobs, sustainable communities, environment, community - the view from rural America. "Rural feminist" is not a contradiction in terms. Join the conversation by signing up with Twitter.
 
 

 

"The Zone may be very different from where you live, but it's so much like where you are in your head." - Pandora