By Meredith Whitfield Here’s the thing about rape culture. It’s scary. It reminds us that sexual assault necessarily involves the dehumanization of victims, and it reminds us how callous the world can be to those who need help. Rape culture’s MO keeps its players largely silent, so it hasn’t overtly reminded us of its unreasonable […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This morning, WMATA unveiled its revamped web portal – www.wmata.com/harassment – for Metro-riders to report incidents of sexual harassment or assault. The updated portal includes greater options for users to enter details on incidents. More details below. The piece below is by Caroline Lukas is Media Relations Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area […]
On Thursday, February 27th, CASS was honored to attend the Women’s Information Network’s (WIN) Young Women of Achievement Awards (YWA), in which two of its staff members — co-founder and Executive Director Chai Shenoy and Director of Programs and Policy, Julia Strange — were recognized for their achievements in the field of Service/Nonprofit Advocacy. According […]
On Tuesday (2/19), CASS teamed up with Holly Kearl of Stop Street Harassment (SSH) to meet with WMATA’s taskforce on sexual harassment. The meeting was to touch base with WMATA nearly a year after CASS worked with the agency to implement its first-ever anti-harassment campaign. On Wednesday, we posted SSH’s response to the meeting as told through SSH’s report […]
Note: We submitted the following letter to the editor to the Washington Post on January 25th. Our letter was not published, so we are publishing it here in full. The Post’s editorial, “The District’s Response to Rape Charges” (January 22, 2013) hailed Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)’s Chief Cathy Lanier for implementing recommendations by Human Rights […]