Is there a hole in your life where a stage should be? Here at CASS, we’re all about letting your inner diva shine as you walk the streets or ride the metros of DC. And now, we’re giving her the stage she truly craves at Karaoke Action for Safe Spaces, this Monday, August 18, at […]
It takes all of us Because in order for all of us (and our families, friends, and neighbors) to be safe, we have to change our culture. Because we may all experience gender-based violence, but not all our experiences are the same. Because culture change is hard work, but it is not impossible. Because all […]
We were deeply saddened this week to read the news of a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by a UberDC driver. According to media reports and court documents, an UberDC driver was arrested Saturday on a sexual abuse charge after a woman reported the assault to police last month. We hope this tragedy will help Uber […]
Every time we ask for your support, you blow us away, be it on Giving Tuesday, at our annual event, or when we’re trying to show DC Council that you need an important new piece of legislation. At the end of last year, we reported that we had trained 97 community members to become anti-harassment […]
Yesterday, DC blog Prince of Petworth (PoP) posted a story in which a reader recounted facing harassment from a group of men in Columbia Heights, asking the question: “What should you do when you’re being harassed?” Though it’s unclear from the original story whether the harassing incident described is gender-based, the behaviors — stalking, verbal […]