Tag: domestic violence

• It doesn’t just happen in October

  Last week I attended the Domestic Violence awareness program at the Houston Area Women’s Center shelter and it was powerful to be back and be surrounded by survivors. It felt like home and it reminded me of the important work advocates at the Women’s center do. I also realized that although I may have left,…

  Frida Villalobos

  October 31, 2013

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• My last week at the Women’s Center

  This was my last week as an employee at the Houston Area Women’s Center. I look back at how it all began and those made a difference during my 5 years.

  Frida Villalobos

  September 14, 2013

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• the norm

  I grew up in a culture where the use of violence was the norm. I saw the violence on the faces of my friends at school and heard the screams from the woman beaten by her prince. My aunts talk about the kind of violence my own grandmother was capable of. I cannot blame her…

  Frida Villalobos

  April 10, 2012

  domestic violence, education, frida villalobos, fridas cafe, houston area women’s center, Sexual Assault