Location: 1st and P St NW Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Last week, I moved to a new house on quieter street in Bloomingdale with two close friends and was excited about the new spot– until I got to see who else lived on my street. Two men in particular, who live two houses down from mine, […]
Attention DC! There’s a new safe space resource in town, and we at CASS couldn’t be more excited about it! Last month, RAINN partnered with Street Harassment (SSH) and Defend Yourself to launch the National Street Harassment Hotline. The hotline is modeled after RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline. Same trained, confidential, toll free advice in English and Spanish, except […]
“Every time you see me, you want to harass me,” Eric Garner told police before he was killed. Philando Castile had been pulled over by the police 52 times before the night he lost his life. But there was no uproar about these incidents of harassment. There’s no place to report it. Harassment is not […]
Location: 7th Street and S St NW Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I noticed a cab driver shouting and honking at me when I was passing Shaw Library on 7th Street NW. I walked on 7th St toward Uprising Muffins on S Street, and he continued to sexually harass me, but I was heading in the opposite direction, […]
Location: Dupont Circle Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) This happened a few years back, but I thought a lot about it recently and how much it irked me. I was new to DC (hadn’t officially moved here yet, but was exploring the city after my final interview with a company), and exploring Dupont Circle. As I walked, I heard […]