It takes all of us Because in order for all of us (and our families, friends, and neighbors) to be safe, we have to change our culture. Because we may all experience gender-based violence, but not all our experiences are the same. Because culture change is hard work, but it is not impossible. Because all […]
Every time we ask for your support, you blow us away, be it on Giving Tuesday, at our annual event, or when we’re trying to show DC Council that you need an important new piece of legislation. At the end of last year, we reported that we had trained 97 community members to become anti-harassment […]
Yesterday, DC blog Prince of Petworth (PoP) posted a story in which a reader recounted facing harassment from a group of men in Columbia Heights, asking the question: “What should you do when you’re being harassed?” Though it’s unclear from the original story whether the harassing incident described is gender-based, the behaviors — stalking, verbal […]
A national study released today by our friend and former board member Holly Kearl is the first to quantify the prevalence and harm done by street harassment in our nation. Combined with the innumerable stories shared on the #YesAllWomen hashtag, providing a clear picture of the emotional impact of entitlement and aggression perpetrated across the […]
*TRIGGER WARNING* After three similar attacks in the Eastern Market area this month, the community voiced their concerns that women are being targeted for violence. In one case, a young woman was forced by her knife-wielding attacker into an alleyway, where he pulled up her skirt. When she resisted, he stabbed her in the neck […]