Founded by Suzanne Pharr in partnership with others in response to the crisis of intimate partner violence, the Women’s Project focuses on offering training and support to women in rural areas and small towns so that they can build their own organizations.

Their work includes organizing across the Mississippi River Delta, bringing “good touch/bad touch” trainings to children in conservative Christian communities to fight against child sexual abuse. They speak directly about lesbian battering at a time when most intimate partner violence only focused on straight male violence, and mobilize to respond with action and analysis to the rise in white supremacist, Christian radical, anti-queer, and anti-women hate groups.

In 2012, the Women’s Project will become a part of the Arkansas Coalition for Reproductive Justice.