Setting the P.A.C.E. – Prevention, Arts and Advocacy, Community, Education

From the U.S. Civil Rights movement to the Gay Liberation movement, art and popular media have always been used as tools for advocacy and education. In this tradition, the grantees are using these models to raise HIV awareness and combat stigma.

Community care and healing is important for all people, but it is critically important for Black women and girls as they are often marginalized and de-centered due to the combined forces of racism and misogyny. Building community allows for Black women and girls to see themselves and their life experiences through the lens of sisterhood, while also building personal and organizational capacity and strength. The
community-focused grantees are developing and implementing unique community engagement and social impact capacity building experiences to connect and empower Black women and girls as well as Black woman-led and serving health organizations.

As a traditionally marginalized group, and for many multi-layered reasons, health data and educational resources for and by Black women can be limited. The
education-focused grantees will develop a creative project to improve the availability of data and resources related to the health and wellbeing of both cisgender and Transgender Black women and girls, especially as it relates to HIV risk, diagnoses and outcomes.