Ask a straight, cisgender man what he does when he prepares to leave the house. Odds are, he will be at a loss for how to answer. For those that rarely feel the threat of sexual violence on the street, safety is often not on their radar. Try asking the same question to a woman […]
What role can bar staff play in ending sexual violence? What techniques do they already use to intervene in uncomfortable or even dangerous situations? How can we learn from each other to add more? These are just a few of the questions we posed during the bystander intervention workshop we conducted Monday with Hank’s Oyster […]
Here at CASS, we always say that your stories matter. We believe in this so much that we ask you to raise your voice and speak out about your experiences of public sexual harassment and assault on our blog. And time and time again, be it in our WMATA advocacy or our community workshops, you’ve […]
Marisa is a founding organizer of the DC Justice for Survivors Campaign (DC JSC), along with staff from CASS, DCRCC and DC NOW. In December, Marisa — who is a survivor of a sexual assault that took place in DC — testified before the DC Council in support of DC JSC’s recommended changes to critical legislation to protect survivors […]
This time two years ago, our Co-Founder & Executive Director, Chai Shenoy, testified at a DC Council hearing about the overwhelming need to prevent sexual harassment & assault on the DC public transportation system. CASS’s testimony stemmed from hundreds of incidents of public sexual harassment that CASS had collected over the years — at least 30 percent of which had taken place on or […]