INCITE! Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans people of Color Against Violence, formerly known as INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, is a United States-based national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities. INCITE! 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. INCITE! was founded in 2000. History INCITE! began in 2000 after organizing the conference, "The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color", held at University of California-Santa Cruz on April 28–29, 2000. Prior to The Color of Violence, many women of color felt their needs had been ignored in the violence against women movement. 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. Women of color had a more radical approach to the violence against women movement. That approach was often ignored. Many of the women of color grew frustrated and left the movement entirely. The Color of Violence Convention gave women of color a place where their more radical approach could be central. Issues addressed at this conference included immigrant rights and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, militarism, attacks on the reproductive rights of women of color, medical experimentation on communities of color, homophobia and heterosexism, economic neo-colonialism, and the politicization of the movement against domestic and sexual violence. Conference organizers initially anticipated a small gathering of one to two hundred people, but over one thousand people attended and over two thousand people had to be turned away because of space limitations." Andrea Smith, a white woman and INCITE! co-founder, 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." As a result of this enthusiastic response, conference organizers and others founded INCITE! to continue to implement the ideas of the conference. Analysis INCITE! identifies "violence against women of color" as a combination of "violence directed at communities", such as police violence, war, and colonialism, and "violence within communities", such as rape and domestic violence. INCITE! critiques the battered women's movement and anti-rape movement as becoming