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Survivor + Worker Led Structural Change

The power dynamics that allow sexual harassment and gender-based violence to happen are often the same dynamics that enable it to go largely unchecked. Our role is to interrupt and expose these ever-present narratives that create and feed injustices, center those who are most impacted, and challenge institutional inaction, violence, and complicity through robust organizing. Central to our corporate and cultural accountability work is creating Solidarity Circles with survivors. Together we organize to bring our vision for a better workplace, community, and world to fruition.

About Us

Survivor + Worker Led Structural Change

The power dynamics that allow sexual harassment and gender-based violence to happen are often the same dynamics that enable it to go largely unchecked. Our role is to interrupt and expose these ever-present narratives that create and feed injustices, center those who are most impacted, and challenge institutional inaction, violence, and complicity through robust organizing. Central to our corporate and cultural accountability work is creating Solidarity Circles with survivors. Together we organize to bring our vision for a better workplace, community, and world to fruition.

About Us

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Survivor + Worker Led Solidarity Circles

SK Worker Solidarity Circles are spaces where survivors come together to build a community of action, support, and mutual aid.

Our community is rooted in the acknowledgment that systems based on patriarchy and oppression must be dismantled and reimagined. We meet survivors of workplace sexual harassment, violence, and discrimination wherever they are in their healing process – first addressing their immediate needs while placing them in the larger context of system failure. We focus on developing key organizing skills like power mapping, building community, public speaking, cultivating relationships with allies, and navigating interpersonal and structural toxicity. 

 

Join Our Solidarity Circles

Survivor + Worker Led Solidarity Circles

SK Worker Solidarity Circles are spaces where survivors come together to build a community of action, support, and mutual aid.

Our community is rooted in the acknowledgment that systems based on patriarchy and oppression must be dismantled and reimagined. We meet survivors of workplace sexual harassment, violence, and discrimination wherever they are in their healing process – first addressing their immediate needs while placing them in the larger context of system failure. We focus on developing key organizing skills like power mapping, building community, public speaking, cultivating relationships with allies, and navigating interpersonal and structural toxicity. 

 

Join Our Solidarity Circles

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Advocacy + Leadership

We are survivor-led and set out to organize for transformative culture change in places where we work.

We use the term power-based sexual violence rather than gender-based violence to ensure that we are acknowledging the totality of our experiences as survivors  (i.e. rape, domestic, sexual violence, workplace harassment, intimidation, stalking, coercion, and discrimination). 

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Resources + Tools

Check out our growing collection of resources and tools which will be updated frequently as our work evolves.

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Friends of Survivors Know

Dania Rajendra

Director of Athena

“We’re excited to work with Survivors Know as we organize against Amazon. Survivor justice points the way to the democracy and economy we need. Coronavirus, the economic crisis, and the uprising have shown how Amazon continues to bully workers, community businesses, neighbors, and our elected officials. Deep alliances with organizations like Survivors Know, taking on exploitation and violence from related angles, is key — we need each other to win.”

Shaunna Thomas

CoFounder & Director of UltraViolet

“We’re proud to be a core partner of Survivors Know – true gender and racial justice is unreachable without advancing the leadership and harnessing the power of survivors. The work that we’re doing together pushes against the status quo towards change we can feel and see.”

Nirman Bisla

Survivors Know Leader, Advisory Board Member

“Since joining Survivors Know, I’ve become more comfortable sharing my experience as a survivor. This was one of the first spaces that truly felt action oriented – like we were all in this together and could end violence against women.”

GG Green

Survivor Know Leader, Organizer, United for Respect

“I’ve been waiting for something like Survivors Know. Our movement needs us to take power back from those that control it – I’m really proud to be a part of this sisterhood.”

Akane Kumagai

Survivors Know Leader & Social Worker

“This is such an important and vibrant space for survivors! I’m a social worker and a survivor – it’s rare to have my leadership and perspective truly valued. As survivors we know what justice looks like, we know what it can feel like to be unseen or seen as a monolith – I’m excited about the ways we are going to change our culture and really disrupt the notions about how our society honors us.”

Maurice Weeks

CoDirector of Action Center on Race & the Economy

“As a racial justice organization focused on shifting the structures that enable inequities to unchecked – we see the work that Survivors Know advances as critical towards truly shifting our culture and workplaces.”

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