Location: Bar, The Ugly Mug Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Great band, good bar, but I’m never going back. While I was there, a man who came by himself was lurking around the dance floor making women uncomfortable. After moving away from him multiple times, I felt a hand slide up the back of my dress and […]
Location: Black Cat (14th and U Street) Time: Late Night (12am-5am) On Friday night, I went to the Black Cat for Lady Parts Justice’s Pro-choice Prom – the kind of amazing, progressive fundraising event that Black Cat is known to graciously host. That’s why what happened after the event, when my friends and I headed […]
Wow! Thanks to amazing supporters like you, we were able to #RaisetheBar! Because you gave, because you drank with us at happy hour, because you tweeted and took selfies, because you shared our campaign, Collective Action for Safe Spaces raised more than $9,500 through our #DoMore24 campaign to launch the Safe Bar Collective! Your support […]
Trans people face tremendous hurdles — like wage inequity, lack of legal protections, and implicit bias — when it comes to securing stable unemployment. In DC alone, 36% of trans men and women have faced unemployment during their lives. But for Black trans people, this statistic increases significantly to a staggering 55%. Chronic unemployment stemming […]
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 […]