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Back in 2012, members of Collective Action for Safe Spaces met with the D.C. Council to discuss how residents experience harassment in the Metro transit system. Metro spokesperson Dan Stessel said in response, “One person’s harassment is another person’s flirting.” Comments like these underscore why street harassment has remained a frustratingly common issue. Metro’s own […]

Earlier this month, the razor-making corporation Gillette released an ad that drew the ire of many of its past customers. The two-minute commercial first shows men and boys sexually harassing women, mansplaining to their coworkers and bullying others. Then, the narrator intones that “something has changed” and that “there will be no going back” — […]