The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is in the process of redesigning a national survey on stalking. The questions, developed with input from an expert panel, need to be tested before they can be used in a survey, so the U.S. Census Bureau is seeking victims/survivors of stalking to participate in an interview between early […]
Sloane Tucker, a sophomore at the GW Corcoran School of Art, is working on an analog photography project featuring women and men and quotes of their worst cat calls/verbal comments/experiences. She is looking to photograph as many individuals as possible to show how street harassment affects people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, and races–and CASS is partnering […]
Thank you to all the volunteers, friends, donors, and riders who made the July 4 service date a success! We are thrilled to announce that we have completed our pilot phase for RightRides DC. Thank you so much to everyone who has made the program possible since October! We’re looking forward to the future of […]
Elisabeth Olds, the SAVRAA Independent Expert Consultant responsible for monitoring compliance with the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2014 and making recommendations for improvements, would like to hear from as many survivors as possible who experienced a sexual assault in the District of Columbia after January 1, 2014. The goals of her interviews […]
At this year’s Lights, Camera, Collective Action, I looked around the event venue. In that room was a world that felt true to me: inter-generational, racially & ethnically diverse, women/men/3rd gender, artists, lawyers, start-up geeks, and multi-lingual folks all gathering together. I saw my friends and family. I saw strangers with warm smiles. I saw […]