Photos & Videos

Determined to Survive is a powerful short video of our work.  The film focuses on three major themes taken from interviews with our members:

• self-determination: Self-determination is the ability to choose how to live your life, It is a life-long practice.

• transformation: how our work helps survivors heal from isolation and shame caused by experiencing violence and abuse;

• people power: the connections between survivor's personal experiences and the larger context of systems of oppression, and the importance of taking collective action to transform culture and conditions.

Determined to Survive: CUAV Stories from CUAV on Vimeo.  Directed by Elizabeth Waiters and edited by Aleixo Goncalves. 

Listen to powerful testimonies from LGBTQ immigrants and domestic violence survivors about the criminalization of immigrants and devastating impact of law enforcement and immigration enforcement collaboration.