Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Published 2025

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Advocates play a key role in preventing and responding to domestic violence (DV) by providing information, resources, financial support, legal assistance, and more to folks who are experiencing abuse. However, advocates face many barriers in their work to end gender-based abuse. These barriers lead to immeasurable issues for survivors who are seeking help and healing.

One barrier that many advocates and survivors of abuse continue to face is a lack of social awareness. 

In order to overcome this barrier and to ultimately stop the cycles and systems of domestic violence that exist in today's world, we must develop a collective understanding about what domestic abuse is. And not just a definition—also an intuitive understanding that is formed from our personal connections and survivor-centered storytelling. Through this awareness, we can create a safer world for all of us.

That's why we choose to uplift poetry this DVAM! We've found several poems on social media that evoke personal connections and embody survivor-centered storytelling, and we want to repost some of our favorites throughout October. 

Beyond our hope for these poems to recognize and honor the survivorship of victims, it is our hope that these poems can get the attention of our community members, garner more engagement for DVAM, and support our beloved advocates in their awareness-building work to end domestic abuse.