Today Councilmember Brianne K. Nadeau introduced legislation to establish a new Street Harassment Task Force led by the Office on Human Rights to collect data and develop evidence-based policy recommendations to help make DC streets safer by reducing harassment. The legislation follows the Council’s first-ever hearing on street harassment in December 2015 when people from […]
On April 28th, we’re celebrating our seventh anniversary with our annual gala: Lights, Camera, Collective Action! We invite you to join us at Room & Board (yes, it’s a furniture store) for unlimited drinks and photo booth fun at this soiree for safe spaces. Until March 13th, early bird tickets are on sale for just $32 – ten bucks […]
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 […]
We’re shaken to read about this violent attack late last month in Bloomingdale. Please stay safe, DC. If you experience sexual harassment or assault, consider reaching out to the DCRCC – Powering A Culture of Consent hotline to access support at (202) 333-7273. The story, as reported by NBC Washington: A woman walking down a street […]
“When I was coming up, I was harassed by men on the street often, but I didn’t see it as harassment,” testified Schyla Pondexter-Moore at DC’s first roundtable discussion on street harassment, “That was something that I just felt that you had to deal with.” But when her 15-year-old daughter came to her asking how […]