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A DC high school student on facing street harassment & finding feminism By Rosie Cohen  Getting off the train, walking down a busy street, walking down a side street, walking the dog, biking home from school, crossing the street. It’s day or night, no matter what I’m wearing or how I have my hair. It’s […]

Location:  Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Street harassment of any kind is a daily experience for me, but this incident that happened a few weeks ago was particularly disturbing. I was walking by the Rhode Island Avenue metro station when a man, probably a teenager or in his early 20s, asked if […]

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, the homepage of CNN – the second most popular internet news outlet in America – featured a detailed piece on street harassment and sexual violence. All too often, the threat posed by street harassment is downplayed, referred to as a “compliment” or simply dismissed as just “how it is.” But CNN reporter Emily Smith […]

Street harassment affects women, regardless of their looks or socioeconomic status. It doesn’t matter how accomplished I am, or how I’m dressed, or how determined I look when I walk down the street. By “AKD” This post was originally written as a Facebook note. My friend asked me, as a woman, to convey the experience […]