We are really excited to participate in Capital Pride this year, supporting safe spaces for *all.* Come stop by our booth on Sunday, or march with us in the parade today! We’ll be at our booth from 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Sunday and we need two people at any given time. Sign up here! […]
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 […]
Location: 1525 Wilson Blvd #2, Virginia Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) I spent the weekend in DC for Awesome Con, and was sexually harassed on three separate occasions: 1) Along 7th st NW, while walking back to the convention center after buying a jacket to keep warm, a group of men in a van started shouting “hey […]
On Tuesday, November 19th, Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) joined hundreds of community members at the International Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil, held at the Metropolitan Community Church of DC in NW. Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1998 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith — a transgender graphic designer, columnist, and activist — to memorialize […]
On Saturday, July 7, a security guard at DC’s popular club, U Street Music Hall, asked two male patrons to leave for having danced “in a sexual manner” during a Robyn concert. Fortunately, two staff security guards stepped in during the incident, and UHall’s General Manager fired the security guard — who had been contracted by a third-party firm — on the spot. After […]