Launching SOAR’s Inaugural Report: Together We Rise

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, South Asian SOAR is thrilled to release our inaugural report, Together We Rise: Voices from the Frontlines of South Asian Gender-Based Violence Work.

Our report launches following the loss of several South Asians community members in California, Illinois, Texas, and New York to gender-based violence in the last few months alone. In this time of profound grief, we are reminded of the urgent need for this work — now more than ever.

The Together We Rise report is a comprehensive look at the needs and challenges of South Asian survivors, frontline organizations, communities, and the gender-based violence movement. It is the first time that the voices of community-based organizations that serve South Asian survivors have been unified and amplified on the national scale. It also a roadmap for communities abundant with joy, healing, and justice.

But above all, this report is an invitation to each of you — to read, share, and reflect on the report — and join us in ending abuse and violence in the South Asian diaspora. Whether you’ve been a close supporter of SOAR since our inception in 2020, or if you just started following us, thank you for being a part of this movement.

Join the Conversation

Each of your voices is critical in building collective power, and we would love for you to join the conversation in any of the following ways:

• Read the report here or at togetherwerise.report

• Follow and directly repost-retweet-reshare our social media posts @SouthAsianSOAR

• Provide your feedback, a testimonial, or story/quote about the report using this form