is organized by a national collective of women of color and has active chapters and affiliates in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Denver, Albuquerque, Austin, New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Ann Arbor, Binghamton, Chicago, and a chapter in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Much of the leadership in the movement that was started by Black lesbians, at that time, was white women who typically excluded an intersectional approach.
co-founder,[4] wrote that "the overwhelming response to this initial effort suggests that women of color and their allies are hungry for a new approach toward ending violence.
critiques the battered women's movement and anti-rape movement as becoming increasingly professionalized, keeping it from taking more political stances on institutional oppression and violence, and increasingly collaborative with the criminal justice system, which they identify as being "brutally oppressive towards communities of color".
develops strategies to address both personal and state violence, acknowledging the ways that oppressions intersect in the lives of women of color.
works on several local and national campaigns including organizing against police violence against women and trans people of color, for community-based strategies to hold people engaged in abusive behavior such as domestic and sexual violence accountable, against sterilization abuse and the Hyde Amendment, and against the War on Iraq and U.S. militarism.
helped to establish the Boarding School Healing Project, a project that organizes Native Americans to hold the U.S. government accountable for forcing over 100,000 Native children to go to Christian boarding schools where they were often raped and abused.
's grassroots chapters also organize projects to address multiple kinds of violence against women of color.
's Denver chapter spotlighted an intersectional analysis of racism and violence against women as a critique to other anti-violence organizations' responses to the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case.
also helped to organize a national conference in April 2004 entitled, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex" at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
This latter conference brought together activists to investigate the impact of the non-profit system on grassroots movement building.
published an anthology of writings that reflect their politics entitled, Color of Violence: The INCITE!