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Location: Red & Green Metro lines, starting at Cleveland Park and ending at Columbia Heights Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Three young guys get on the train at Cleveland Park at the same time as me. I can hear them audibly *take notice of me* to each other when I sat down. I pretend to be engrossed in my phone. […]

On Tuesday (2/19), CASS teamed up with Holly Kearl of Stop Street Harassment (SSH) to meet with WMATA’s taskforce on sexual harassment. The meeting was to touch base with WMATA nearly a year after CASS worked with the agency to implement its first-ever anti-harassment campaign.  On Wednesday, we posted SSH’s response to the meeting as told through SSH’s report […]

Location:  U Street Metro station Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) This past Friday while walking toward the U Street Metro station, I had a particularly jarring experience of street harassment.  As I was crossing at a light, a man walked toward me and accused me of almost causing him to get hit by a car because he […]

Location: Metro – Blue and Red Lines (Franconia to Dupont); Dupont Area; Cobalt DC Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Got on train at Franconia around 10:30pm on Saturday January 19 and throughout the ride to Metro Center, got undressed with the eyes several times by two men. Upon reaching Metro Center, one of them got up and grabbed the […]

Location: Wilson Blvd. outside the Ballston Mall (VA) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking down the street on the middle of a Saturday afternoon when a man, walking with another male, said loudly to me, “girl, let’s go make some babies.” I’m ashamed to say I was too stunned to say anything back. The comment wasn’t even […]