We’re excited to debut new posters from the Safe Bar Collective and the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCCADV)! On the heels of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, these posters are raising awareness about strategies YOU can use when you see someone being harassed. Designed by Baltimore-based muralist […]
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series from our Rethink Masculinity program with ReThink and DC Rape Crisis Center. The author, Stephen Hicks, is co-director of Rethink Masculinity and stylistically decided to not use capitalization. i didn’t know about emotional labor until i joined the rethink masculinity course from CASS. the second class of rethink was about this […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and CASS is joining survivors, advocates, and allies to spread the word. Did you know that one in four women and one in seven men will experience severe physical violence by a partner in their lifetime? For Black and Hispanic women, this number jumps to 30 and 33 percent, […]
We’re about to step up our game to create policy solutions to prevent street harassment, and we need YOU! The Street Harassment Prevention Act, which we affectionately call SHPA, will broaden the definition of street harassment to include our most marginalized communities. And the SHPA will create mechanisms of data collection and training requirements to […]
You’re awesome! Thanks to many of you and your generous support over the last two weeks, we have 24 new members in our Collective Action Circle and we’re bringing in an additional $6,120 each year! This outpouring of support will help us expand our staff and move into a new office space, so we can […]