This is Nona. As a black transwoman who has engaged in sex work to survive, Nona has too many gaps in her resume and faces too much discrimination to find stable work and proper housing. She’s part of a community that’s more likely to experience homelessness and more likely to face sexual and gender-based harassment […]
This month, CASS staff and volunteers took to the streets to spread messages against sexual violence and reclaim public space. We chalked the streets! It was empowering for those of us who experience street harassment every day to take back the streets, to use art to heal, and to amplify our messages against this most […]
In my last post I described how I became part of CASS — mainly as a supporter of RightRides. For the first two years, I mainly was learning about street harassment and learning how to be a board member. Then, in the summer of 2011, I found a way to put my advocacy and organizing […]
In addition to being International Guitar Month, National Welding Month, and National Pecan Month, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the second week of April is Anti-Street Harassment week. It’s a time to honor the experiences of survivors and think about how we can all work to create a safer community. What do we […]
We just released our strategic plan! The plan was heavily influenced by DC’s first roundtable on street harassment in December 2015 where 30 people testified about their experiences as targets and bystanders of public sexual harassment and assault. We heard women of color sharing their stories of harassment that quickly escalated to assault and transwomen […]