The photos and interviews below were part of an artivism project by Dejah K. Greene of the Sanctuaries. Khadija Ali Have you ever experienced street harassment on the metro or around the DMV area? Though I’m not from the metro/DMV area, I have experienced street harassment on my visits there and in other major cities, such […]
Advocates for safe public spaces gathered in Farragut Square on Saturday, April 8th to raise their voices against street harassment and to support the Street Harassment Prevention Act. Advocates and community members discussed street harassment prevention strategies, shared their experiences, and showed their support for community-based, non-criminal solutions to end harassment. CASS Executive Director Jessica […]
We are just two weeks away from our Safe Space Jam and we have a lot to celebrate this year! We’ve trained 27 Safe Bars, facilitated over 40 workshops, and launched a new program called Rethinking Masculinity. What a year! Last week, we sat down with two awesome individuals who brought our safe bars program to […]
“I left because my foster mother was mistreating me,” one of DC’s missing Black and Latinx teen girls told WUSA9. She opted to sleep in the laundry room of an apartment building next to her sister’s place rather than return to foster care. Vaneshia Weaver, another teen reported missing, told WUSA9 that she wasn’t missing […]
Editor’s Note: The note below was distributed by the DC Justice for Muslims Coalitions. Collective Action for Safe Spaces is proud to be part of the Coalition. We hope you will join us in rallying against these unjust bans. At 11:30 AM this morning, President Trump signed an Executive Order putting Muslim Ban 2.0 into […]