Washington Area Women’s Foundation understands the significant stress we are collectively experiencing as a result of COVID-19, and we are deeply grateful for the way in which our community has stepped up to respond to this unprecedented public health crisis.
There’s no debating that women and girls are bearing the brunt of this crisis, from shouldering the majority of caregiving to being among the hardest hit by job loss. And for cis and trans women and gender expansive individuals of color, this impact is exacerbated by structural inequities that were in place long before this pandemic.
We are witnessing this play out in real time, every day, whether it is how Black, Latinx, and other people of color have been impacted by coronavirus or the ways in which smaller nonprofits—often led by people of color—have been left out of the recovery process, further marginalizing those who face the most vulnerability—cis and trans women and gender expansive individuals of color.
