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What an exciting year it has been! Here is a glimpse at what 2010 brought us: We hit the 300,000 view mark.  Since starting Holla Back DC! we’ve had more than 600 submissions. We declared March Public Transit Awareness Month We celebrated our one year anniversary in April at Cafe Collage with comedy, spoken word, […]

Through this blog and the help of our wonderful readers and contributors, we have proven that words are a great way to holla back! However art is also a powerful tool that can be used to Holla Back in many ways by many different people. This week we want to highlight individuals who have realized […]

Check out this great op-ed article published in The Examiner written by our very own previous intern Brittnie Smith an 11th Grader from Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy! It’s always great  to see someone standing up and spreading knowledge about street harassment! The Fear of Metro by Brittnie Smith Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority […]

Surprise! Women often feel unsafe while taking public transportation and even change their routes to avoid the spaces they fear.In her latest study, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris looks at what women fear the most when taking public transportation, what women need, and what innovative solutions are out there. In 2006, Loukaitou-Sideris and team did a survey of […]

While we know that WMATA doesn’t always responded well to  sexual harassment and assault reports, we do believe that it is important to report incidents and file complaints in order to document its prevalence.  Sexual harassment and assault on our Metro trains and buses is very underreported.  According to The Sexist, in 2009, there were 47 […]