Location: 7th Street, outside Verizon Center Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking back to the office from lunch today, enjoying the beautiful, sunny weather. I walked by a group of three men who were talking with one another on the street; as I was walking by, one of them made an inappropriate comment to me about my […]
Location: Silver Spring, MD Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I wrote a few months back about a case of exposure I was unfortunate enough to witness back in November on the Red Line. Since then, I’ve followed the CASS Facebook Page and I read as many of the stories I can – they infuriate me. Street harassment had […]
Over the course of 2010-2011, I lost 100 pounds and had skin removal surgery. With every progressive step in my weight loss journey, the level of harassment I experienced continued to rise. By “Dechanique” I finally called the WMATA harassment hotline and reported the constant street harassment I’ve been receiving outside the New Carrolton Metro […]
Location: Orange line near Virginia Square stop Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Christmas Eve 2012 I boarded the train around noon to meet a friend in DC. The car was nearly empty when a young man sat in the seat directly behind me. I felt that was odd. I looked out the window to see if I could see […]
By Liz Gorman Note: The following is a speech given by Liz at our March 28th, 2013 fundraiser. It serves as a follow-up to her first-person account of her sexual assault in DC that she wrote last summer for CASS and which was picked up by the Huffington Post, Washington Post, Jezebel, FOX, WJLA and more. I […]