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 […]
This week, WMATA launched the first transit safety survey of its kind in DC (and one of the first in the country)! Using a mix of questions developed by CASS and questions about transit safety from the 2014 national study led by Stop Street Harassment, this survey seeks to learn about the experiences of DC metro […]
Location: Red to Silver Line Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) Around 7:15am on Tuesday, December 15, a man on the red line Metro bound for Silver Spring was sitting across the aisle from me. When I looked over, he was holding a newspaper over his lap, but had his penis exposed and was stroking it. He […]
Location: L8 Stop on Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, MD Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I was waiting by myself at the L8 bus stop on the way home from work. Traffic on Connecticut Avenue was stop and go. A small black car pulls up, and a man 25-35 years old casually asked: “Is this the fastest way […]