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Location: 20th and L Streets NW (Farragut North) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) You felt the need to holla at me en Español on 20th and L. as much as I hate that shit, I let it go. I know that I look like a white girl, and you didn’t know that I am also from México. Or did […]

Location: 17th & K NW (Farragut North) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) This is what happened when I walked 1 BLOCK to grab some lunch: Exit Pret a Manger: Dude looks at me and says, “hey beautiful.” I awkwardly downcast eyes and give a weird, toothless, grimace-smile (working on not reacting this way, but I feel conditioned to respond when […]

Location: 32 bus stop on Lafayette Park Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Coming home from work on a Sunday a group of three young men (between the ages of 17-21) got on the bus a few stops after I did. I did not pay too much attention to them because groups of young people getting on the bus is […]

Location: 18th and M St NW (Farragut North/Dupont) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was catcalled yesterday (12:04pm) walking to the post office to mail a letter to my dad. I was walking towards the crosswalk on 18th and M st NW, and almost didn’t notice the bike messenger coming my way on the sidewalk. I hesitated for a […]

What does our public space mean to us? How can we use art to reclaim it? How does art start conversations, turn bystanders into upstanders, and build movements? These are the questions CASS contemplated during our workshop this past Friday on how to use street art, or “artivism” to address gender-based public sexual harassment and […]